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On March 17, 2021 at 1:59 PM
Where is my inner truth...?
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 third line:
A group of three travelers
is decreased by one person.
One person travels and gets a friend.
A group of three travelers
is decreased by one person.
One person travels and gets a friend.
The fifth line:
Someone gains ten groups of turtles
no one can defy. Great fortune.
Someone gains ten groups of turtles
no one can defy. Great fortune.
37 Family
The Statement of the second hexagram
A family benefits
from the women's purity.
from the women's purity.
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
Wind emerges from fire:
family.
The noble one has
substance in speech and
constancy in action.
family.
The noble one has
substance in speech and
constancy in action.
