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    On February 16, 2011 at  9:28 PM 
  
  
    
how does she feel about this?
  
  
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    36 Smothered Light
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Smothered light. 
Gain is difficult: persist.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The second line:
    Smothered light: injury in the left thigh. 
Exert horselike strength to rescue. 
Fortunate.  
  
    The fifth line:
    The smothered light of Jizi: 
gainful virtue.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    5 Waiting
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Waiting. Stay confident: 
there is light everywhere. 
Pure fortune. 
Advance across the great river.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Brilliance 
in the earth's core: 
smothered light. 
The noble one
governs the multitude 
by obscurity-
but with enlightenment.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Clouds rising to heaven: 
waiting. The noble one 
drinks, eats, 
and feasts with joy.