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On June 27, 2010 at 12:32 AM
What will happen if i do not go to turkey as part of fam trip this July and go to boston instead?
and received a response of:
41 Decrease
The Statement of the first hexagram
Decrease. Have confidence.
Great fortune. No fault
if one can be upright.
Gain by having a place to go.
How should one act?
Two square bamboo baskets
can be used in offering.
Great fortune. No fault
if one can be upright.
Gain by having a place to go.
How should one act?
Two square bamboo baskets
can be used in offering.
The changing lines
The second line:
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.
No decrease, but gain there.
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.
No decrease, but gain there.
The fourth line:
Decrease your hatred.
Act quickly and you will have joy.
No fault.
Decrease your hatred.
Act quickly and you will have joy.
No fault.
The sixth line:
No decrease, but gain there. No fault.
Pure fortune. Gain by having a place to go.
Get servants, but not a house.
No decrease, but gain there. No fault.
Pure fortune. Gain by having a place to go.
Get servants, but not a house.
51 Thunder
The Statement of the second hexagram
Thunder everywhere.
Thunder comes frighteningly.
People laugh and exclaim.
Thunder terrifies for one hundred miles,
but do not lose the ladle
of sacrificial wine.
Thunder comes frighteningly.
People laugh and exclaim.
Thunder terrifies for one hundred miles,
but do not lose the ladle
of sacrificial wine.
The Image of the first hexagram
Lake below mountain:
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
The Image of the second hexagram
Continuous thunder
on thunder.
The noble one examines
his morals
in fear and dread.
on thunder.
The noble one examines
his morals
in fear and dread.
