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On April 21, 2022 at 9:27 AM 

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and received a response of:
old yin
old yin
old yin
old yang
yin
yang
 

36 Smothered Light

The Statement of the first hexagram

Smothered light.

Gain is difficult: persist.

The changing lines

The third line:
Smothered light on a southern expedition.

Their great chief is captured.

One cannot be hasty to establish rule.
The fourth line:
Enter at the left front, capturing

the heart of smothered light.

Going in and out of gates and halls.
The fifth line:
The smothered light of Jizi:

gainful virtue.
The sixth line:
Not a bright night.

First rise into the sky,

then plunge into the earth.
yang
yang
yang
yin
yin
yang
 

25 Innocence

The Statement of the second 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.
 
 

The Image of the first hexagram

Brilliance
in the earth's core:
smothered light.
The noble one
governs the multitude
by obscurity-
but with enlightenment.
 
 

The Image of the second hexagram

Thunder moves
under heaven: all the world
is innocent. The ancient
kings paid close attention
to the time
in nourishing
the myriad things.