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On April 13, 2024 at 1:25 PM 

How can I break free?

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

18 Poison

The Statement of the first hexagram

Poison brings the great continuing.
Advance across the great river.
Before starting: three days.
After starting: three days.

The changing lines

The first line:
Manage father's poison.
Let his child examine. No fault
amid such harshness. In the end, fortune.
The second line:
Manage mother's poison.
One cannot be firm.
The third line:
Manage father's poison.
The young have regrets.
No great fault.
The sixth line:
Do not serve king or lords.
Your own affairs
are of higher importance.
yin
yin
yin
yin
yin
yang
 

24 Returning

The Statement of the second hexagram

Returning. Continue.
In coming and going,
there is neither sickness nor distress.
Companions come without fault.
Returning is its Tao.
In seven days, returning comes.
Gain by having a place to go.
 
 

The Image of the first hexagram

Wind below the mountain:
poison. The noble one
stirs the people
and nourishes virtue.
 
 

The Image of the second hexagram

Thunder in the center of
the earth: returning.
The ancient kings
closed the borders
during the solstices.
Traveling merchants
did not journey. Sovereigns
did not tour the provinces.