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    On March  2, 2011 at  5:52 PM 
  
  
    
what is the lesson in all this for?
  
  
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    47 Distress
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Distress. Continue. 
For a pure and great person: fortune. 
No fault. What is said is not trusted.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The third line:
    Distressed by rock, seized in thistles. 
Entering into his palace, not seeing his wife. 
Misfortune.  
  
    The sixth line:
    Distressed by vines and creepers. 
With anxious speech and acts, one repents. 
Repent and go forward to fortune.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    44 Copulating
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Copulating: the woman is powerful. 
Do not marry such a woman.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    A lake without water: 
distress. The noble one 
devotes her life 
to fulfill her will.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Wind under heaven: 
copulating. 
The sovereign 
issues commands 
to the four quarters.