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On June 14, 2009 at 8:39 PM
where is my next best business opportunity?
and received a response of:
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.
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 second line:
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.
No decrease, but gain there.
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.
No decrease, but gain there.
The sixth line:
No decrease, but gain there. No fault.
Pure fortune. Gain by having a place to go.
Get servants, but not a house.
No decrease, but gain there. No fault.
Pure fortune. Gain by having a place to go.
Get servants, but not a house.
24 Returning
The Statement of the second hexagram
Returning. Continue.
In coming and going,
there is neither sickness nor distress.
Companions come without fault.
Returning is its Tao.
In seven days, returning comes.
Gain by having a place to go.
In coming and going,
there is neither sickness nor distress.
Companions come without fault.
Returning is its Tao.
In seven days, returning comes.
Gain by having a place to go.
The Image of the first hexagram
Lake below mountain:
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
The Image of the second hexagram
Thunder in the center of
the earth: returning.
The ancient kings
closed the borders
during the solstices.
Traveling merchants
did not journey. Sovereigns
did not tour the provinces.
the earth: returning.
The ancient kings
closed the borders
during the solstices.
Traveling merchants
did not journey. Sovereigns
did not tour the provinces.
