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On April 2, 2021 at 2:10 PM
My present position please.?
and received a response of:
25 Innocence
The Statement of the first hexagram
Innocence: from the first, all must be
pervasive, gainful, and pure.
Those without such truth suffer calamity
and do not gain no matter where they go.
pervasive, gainful, and pure.
Those without such truth suffer calamity
and do not gain no matter where they go.
The changing lines
The third line:
Unexpected trouble:
a cow might be tethered by someone else.
The traveler gains, the townsman loses.
Unexpected trouble:
a cow might be tethered by someone else.
The traveler gains, the townsman loses.
The fourth line:
If you can be upright,
there will be no fault.
If you can be upright,
there will be no fault.
The fifth line:
Unexpected illness.
Recovery from sickness brings joy.
Unexpected illness.
Recovery from sickness brings joy.
The sixth line:
Unexpected action brings disaster.
No place will be gainful.
Unexpected action brings disaster.
No place will be gainful.
36 Smothered Light
The Statement of the second hexagram
Smothered light.
Gain is difficult: persist.
Gain is difficult: persist.
The Image of the first hexagram
Thunder moves
under heaven: all the world
is innocent. The ancient
kings paid close attention
to the time
in nourishing
the myriad things.
under heaven: all the world
is innocent. The ancient
kings paid close attention
to the time
in nourishing
the myriad things.
The Image of the second hexagram
Brilliance
in the earth's core:
smothered light.
The noble one
governs the multitude
by obscurity-
but with enlightenment.
in the earth's core:
smothered light.
The noble one
governs the multitude
by obscurity-
but with enlightenment.
