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    On May 24, 2010 at  6:37 PM 
      madmur1 asked:   
  
  
    
wciei i seek to bring light to and remove clogging from the relationship w aer through my work?
  
  
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    8 Joining
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Joining brings fortune. 
Repeating the divination by yarrow stalks
brings a supreme and lasting omen
without fault. 
Those who are not sure 
will join the plan.
Those who are late 
will meet misfortune.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The fourth line:
    Joining with those outside. 
Pure fortune.  
  
    The fifth line:
    Glorious joining. The king uses three beaters 
to flush the birds before him, 
but citizens need no such coercion. Fortune.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    16 Delight
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   What delight! 
Gain by naming allies. 
Move armies.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Water pooled 
on the earth: joining. 
The early kings founded 
the myriad nations,
and kept close ties
with all the leaders.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Thunder explodes, 
shaking the earth: delight. 
The early kings made music, 
glorifying virtue as the 
highest offering to God, 
and so they were worthy
of their ancestors.