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On October 26, 2015 at 7:46 PM
Hike the Pacific Crest Trail after retirement?
and received a response of:
42 Increase
The Statement of the first hexagram
Increase. Gain by having a place to go.
Advance across the great river.
Advance across the great river.
The changing lines
The first line:
Gain by using great work.
Great fortune. No fault.
Gain by using great work.
Great fortune. No fault.
The second line:
Someone increases by ten groups of turtles
no one can defy. Everlasting firmness
and fortune. The king makes offerings to god.
Fortune.
Someone increases by ten groups of turtles
no one can defy. Everlasting firmness
and fortune. The king makes offerings to god.
Fortune.
The third line:
Increase by using unfortunate affairs.
No fault. Have trust in the middle path.
Inform the duke using a jade tablet.
Increase by using unfortunate affairs.
No fault. Have trust in the middle path.
Inform the duke using a jade tablet.
The sixth line:
No increase when someone attacks.
Setting the heart without constancy:
misfortune.
No increase when someone attacks.
Setting the heart without constancy:
misfortune.
48 Well
The Statement of the second hexagram
Well. A city may change,
but the well does not.
It does not lose, it does not gain.
In spite of all who come and go from a well,
it remains a well.
But if the rope cannot reach,
or if the well's vase is upended:_
misfortune.
but the well does not.
It does not lose, it does not gain.
In spite of all who come and go from a well,
it remains a well.
But if the rope cannot reach,
or if the well's vase is upended:_
misfortune.
The Image of the first hexagram
Wind and thunder:
increase. The noble one
sees perfection
and shifts to fit its pattern,
and corrects his own faults.
increase. The noble one
sees perfection
and shifts to fit its pattern,
and corrects his own faults.
The Image of the second hexagram
Wood above water: well.
The noble one encourages
the people and lends them
assistance.
The noble one encourages
the people and lends them
assistance.
