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On September 1, 2023 at 10:22 AM
How can my relationship with f succeed?
and received a response of:
36 Smothered Light
The Statement of the first hexagram
Smothered light.
Gain is difficult: persist.
Gain is difficult: persist.
The changing lines
The first line:
Smothered light in flight, hanging wings.
The wise one travels and has no food
for three days, but finds the destination:
the host responds.
Smothered light in flight, hanging wings.
The wise one travels and has no food
for three days, but finds the destination:
the host responds.
The second line:
Smothered light: injury in the left thigh.
Exert horselike strength to rescue.
Fortunate.
Smothered light: injury in the left thigh.
Exert horselike strength to rescue.
Fortunate.
The sixth line:
Not a bright night.
First rise into the sky,
then plunge into the earth.
Not a bright night.
First rise into the sky,
then plunge into the earth.
18 Poison
The Statement of the second hexagram
Poison brings the great continuing.
Advance across the great river.
Before starting: three days.
After starting: three days.
Advance across the great river.
Before starting: three days.
After starting: three days.
The Image of the first hexagram
Brilliance
in the earth's core:
smothered light.
The noble one
governs the multitude
by obscurity-
but with enlightenment.
in the earth's core:
smothered light.
The noble one
governs the multitude
by obscurity-
but with enlightenment.
The Image of the second hexagram
Wind below the mountain:
poison. The noble one
stirs the people
and nourishes virtue.
poison. The noble one
stirs the people
and nourishes virtue.
