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On April 22, 2024 at 5:57 AM
tell me about yesterday 's purchase of wood. will it really help me?
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.
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 second line:
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.
No decrease, but gain there.
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.
No decrease, but gain there.
The fifth line:
Someone gains ten groups of turtles
no one can defy. Great fortune.
Someone gains ten groups of turtles
no one can defy. Great fortune.
42 Increase
The Statement of the second hexagram
Increase. Gain by having a place to go.
Advance across the great river.
Advance across the great river.
The Image of the first hexagram
Lake below mountain:
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
decrease. The noble one
halts his anger
and curbs his desires.
The Image of the second 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.
