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On October 30, 2017 at 5:33 PM 

What is the potential?

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

41 Decrease

The Statement of the first hexagram

Decrease. Have confidence.

Great fortune. No fault

if one can be upright.

Gain by having a place to go.

How should one act?

Two square bamboo baskets

can be used in offering.

The changing lines

The first line:
In your own business, go quickly. No fault.

Consider decrease there.
The second line:
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.

No decrease, but gain there.
The third line:
A group of three travelers

is decreased by one person.

One person travels and gets a friend.
The fourth line:
Decrease your hatred.

Act quickly and you will have joy.

No fault.
The fifth line:
Someone gains ten groups of turtles

no one can defy. Great fortune.
yang
yang
yang
yang
yin
yin
 

33 Withdrawal

The Statement of the second hexagram

Withdrawal. Continue.
Small gains in persisting.
 
 

The Image of the first hexagram

Lake below mountain:
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
 
 

The Image of the second hexagram

A mountain under heaven:
withdrawal.
The noble one keeps
distant from vile people,
not with hatred,
but with dignity.