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    On March 10, 2011 at  3:05 PM 
  
  
    
how will us rejoining effect the situation?
  
  
    and received a response of:
  
  
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    17 Following
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Following
what is great, smooth, 
gainful, and pure. 
No fault.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The fourth line:
    Follow and there will be capture-but this is a sign 
of misfortune. Put your confidence in the Way 
and you will understand. 
Then, how can there be fault?  
  
    The fifth line:
    Confidence in excellence. 
Fortune.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    24 Returning
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Returning. Continue. 
In coming and going, 
there is neither sickness nor distress.
Companions come without fault. 
Returning is its Tao. 
In seven days, returning comes. 
Gain by having a place to go.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Thunder over the middle 
of the lake: following. 
The noble one at sunset 
goes into a house to rest.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Thunder in the center of 
the earth: returning. 
The ancient kings 
closed the borders 
during the solstices. 
Traveling merchants 
did not journey. Sovereigns 
did not tour the provinces.