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On November 6, 2009 at 4:51 PM 

Shall I be proactive and arrange a show in the spring?

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

6 Dispute

The Statement of the first hexagram

Dispute: keep confident

even if blocked and alarmed.

In the middle, good fortune,

but in the end, misfortune.

Gain by seeing a great person.

Do not advance across the great river.

The changing lines

The first line:
Do not prolong this case.

The petty control all the talk.

In the end: fortune.
The second line:
Unable to win the dispute. Return,

and so flee his realm

of three hundred households.

No blunders.
The third line:
Surviving on old favors: a perilous sign.

In the end: fortune.

One may undertake royal service,

but without personal success.
The sixth line:
One may be awarded a belt of high rank,

but by morning's end,

it will have been stripped away three times.
yin
yang
yang
yang
yin
yang
 

49 Reform

The Statement of the second hexagram

Reform: on one's own day,

confidence is won-

making, pervasive, gainful, and pure.

Regrets vanish.
 
 

The Image of the first hexagram

Heaven and water clash:
dispute. The noble one
devises the right beginning
in all matters.
 
 

The Image of the second hexagram

Fire in the middle of the
lake: reform. The noble one
orders the calendar
by the seasons.