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On December 10, 2010 at 6:44 PM
why did he look so worried?
and received a response of:
53 Gradually
The Statement of the first hexagram
A woman marries: fortune.
Gainful purity.
Gainful purity.
The changing lines
The first line:
Wild swans gradually reach the stream bank.
One's children endangered. There is talk.
No fault.
Wild swans gradually reach the stream bank.
One's children endangered. There is talk.
No fault.
The fifth line:
Wild swans gradually reach the hill.
Three years: a wife cannot conceive.
At the end of twilight: success. Fortune.
Wild swans gradually reach the hill.
Three years: a wife cannot conceive.
At the end of twilight: success. Fortune.
22 Adornment
The Statement of the second hexagram
Adornment. Continue.
Slight gain in having a place to go.
Slight gain in having a place to go.
The Image of the first hexagram
Wood on the mountain:
gradually.
The noble one dwells
in high moral character
and reforms
popular customs.
gradually.
The noble one dwells
in high moral character
and reforms
popular customs.
The Image of the second hexagram
Fire at the foot
of a mountain: adornment.
The noble one thereby
governs with clarity, and
does not dare
to decide lawsuits lightly.
of a mountain: adornment.
The noble one thereby
governs with clarity, and
does not dare
to decide lawsuits lightly.
