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    On December 16, 2010 at 12:37 AM 
  
  
    
why is it that when i had that reaction they were all shocked?
  
  
    and received a response of:
  
  
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    18 Poison
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Poison brings the great continuing. 
Advance across the great river. 
Before starting: three days. 
After starting: three days.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The second line:
    Manage mother's poison. 
One cannot be firm.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    52 Stilling
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   One stills one's back
and does not move one's body. 
There is movement in one's courtyard,
but one does not see one's people. 
No fault.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Wind below the mountain:
poison. The noble one 
stirs the people
and nourishes virtue.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Doubled mountains: 
stillness. 
The noble one 
does not consider matters 
beyond his position.