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On February 18, 2022 at 3:07 AM 

Keep the new?

and received a response of:
old yang
yin
yin
old yin
old yang
yang
 

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.

The changing lines

The second line:
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.

No decrease, but gain there.
The third line:
A group of three travelers

is decreased by one person.

One person travels and gets a friend.
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.
yin
yin
yin
yang
yin
yang
 

36 Smothered Light

The Statement of the second hexagram

Smothered light.

Gain is difficult: persist.
 
 

The Image of the first hexagram

Lake below mountain:
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
 
 

The Image of the second hexagram

Brilliance
in the earth's core:
smothered light.
The noble one
governs the multitude
by obscurity-
but with enlightenment.