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On August 22, 2018 at 2:43 AM

How to deepen the well?

and received a response of:

53 Gradually

The Statement of the first hexagram

A woman marries: fortune.
Gainful purity.

The changing lines

The first line:
Wild swans gradually reach the stream bank.
One's children endangered. There is talk.
No fault.

The second line:
Wild swans gradually reach the boulder.
Drinking and eating in bliss. Fortune.

The third line:
Wild swans gradually reach the shore.
A man journeys but does not return. A wife,
pregnant; does not give birth. Misfortune.
Gain by guarding against raiders.

The fifth line:
Wild swans gradually reach the hill.
Three years: a wife cannot conceive.
At the end of twilight: success. Fortune.

41 Decrease

The Statement of the second 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 Image of the first hexagram

Wood on the mountain:
gradually.
The noble one dwells
in high moral character
and reforms
popular customs.

The Image of the second hexagram

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