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On July 23, 2009 at 12:01 PM

is it time to start writing again?

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.

The changing lines

The fifth line:
Someone gains ten groups of turtles

no one can defy. Great fortune.

61 Confidence Within

The Statement of the second hexagram

Confidence within:

Pigs. Fish. Fortune.

Advance across the great river.

Gainful purity.

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

Wind above the lake:
inner truth.
The noble one
discusses the law
and grants reprieve
from execution.