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On August 14, 2021 at 5:09 PM
Should I mourn the loss?
and received a response of:
53 Gradually
The Statement of the first hexagram
A woman marries: fortune.
Gainful purity.
Gainful purity.
The changing lines
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.
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 fourth line:
Wild swans gradually reach the wood.
Some find branches. No fault.
Wild swans gradually reach the wood.
Some find branches. No fault.
12 Clogging
The Statement of the second hexagram
Clogging by wicked people.
Nothing to be gained,
even from a steadfast prince.
The great goes, the vile comes.
Nothing to be gained,
even from a steadfast prince.
The great goes, the vile comes.
The Image of the first hexagram
Wood on the mountain:
gradually.
The noble one dwells
in high moral character
and reforms
popular customs.
gradually.
The noble one dwells
in high moral character
and reforms
popular customs.
The Image of the second hexagram
Heaven and earth
separate: clogging.
The noble one acts
with self-restraint
in the face
of punishing hardship,
and avoids glory or riches.
separate: clogging.
The noble one acts
with self-restraint
in the face
of punishing hardship,
and avoids glory or riches.
