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On September 8, 2017 at 5:47 AM
Why is she keeping quiet?
and received a response of:
13 Kindred
The Statement of the first hexagram
The kindred in the wilderness.
Continue.
Advance across the great river.
Gain by a wise one's purity.
Continue.
Advance across the great river.
Gain by a wise one's purity.
The changing lines
The second line:
The kindred in the ancestral temple.
Remorse.
The kindred in the ancestral temple.
Remorse.
The third line:
Armed and lying in ambush
under the thicket. Looming above
is their high mound.
For three years, there is no rising.
Armed and lying in ambush
under the thicket. Looming above
is their high mound.
For three years, there is no rising.
The fourth line:
Mounting their ramparts.
Unable to conquer.
Fortune.
Mounting their ramparts.
Unable to conquer.
Fortune.
The fifth line:
The kindred first wail and yet later laugh:
great armies are able to meet.
The kindred first wail and yet later laugh:
great armies are able to meet.
The sixth line:
The kindred at the countryside sacrifice.
No regrets.
The kindred at the countryside sacrifice.
No regrets.
19 Arrival
The Statement of the second hexagram
The arrival of the maker: everywhere,
giving and pure.
When the eighth moon comes,
there will be misfortune.
giving and pure.
When the eighth moon comes,
there will be misfortune.
The Image of the first hexagram
Fire rises into heaven:
kindred. The noble one
groups and sorts
all that must be done.
kindred. The noble one
groups and sorts
all that must be done.
The Image of the second hexagram
Earth by the lake: arrival.
The noble one
is inexhaustible
in teaching,
and boundlessly protects
the people.
The noble one
is inexhaustible
in teaching,
and boundlessly protects
the people.
