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On February 5, 2022 at 9:33 PM
elements case, binding?
and received a response of:
6 Dispute
The Statement of the first hexagram
Dispute: keep confident
even if blocked and alarmed.
In the middle, good fortune,
but in the end, misfortune.
Gain by seeing a great person.
Do not advance across the great river.
even if blocked and alarmed.
In the middle, good fortune,
but in the end, misfortune.
Gain by seeing a great person.
Do not advance across the great river.
The changing lines
The second line:
Unable to win the dispute. Return,
and so flee his realm
of three hundred households.
No blunders.
Unable to win the dispute. Return,
and so flee his realm
of three hundred households.
No blunders.
The third line:
Surviving on old favors: a perilous sign.
In the end: fortune.
One may undertake royal service,
but without personal success.
Surviving on old favors: a perilous sign.
In the end: fortune.
One may undertake royal service,
but without personal success.
The fourth line:
Unable to win the dispute. Go back now,
make your decisions.
Change your mind
and there will be peace.
Unable to win the dispute. Go back now,
make your decisions.
Change your mind
and there will be peace.
The sixth line:
One may be awarded a belt of high rank,
but by morning's end,
it will have been stripped away three times.
One may be awarded a belt of high rank,
but by morning's end,
it will have been stripped away three times.
39 Hindered
The Statement of the second hexagram
Gain in the west and south.
No gain in the east and north.
Gain by seeing the great person.
Pure fortune.
No gain in the east and north.
Gain by seeing the great person.
Pure fortune.
The Image of the first hexagram
Heaven and water clash:
dispute. The noble one
devises the right beginning
in all matters.
dispute. The noble one
devises the right beginning
in all matters.
The Image of the second hexagram
Water on top of the
mountain: hindered.
The noble one
turns inward
to cultivate virtue.
mountain: hindered.
The noble one
turns inward
to cultivate virtue.
