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On December 29, 2010 at 8:48 PM 

wwhc?

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

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 first line:
In your own business, go quickly. No fault.

Consider decrease there.
The second line:
Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going.

No decrease, but gain there.
The fourth line:
Decrease your hatred.

Act quickly and you will have joy.

No fault.
The sixth line:
No decrease, but gain there. No fault.

Pure fortune. Gain by having a place to go.

Get servants, but not a house.
yin
yin
yang
yin
yin
yin
 

16 Delight

The Statement of the second hexagram

What delight!
Gain by naming allies.
Move armies.
 
 

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

Thunder explodes,
shaking the earth: delight.
The early kings made music,
glorifying virtue as the
highest offering to God,
and so they were worthy
of their ancestors.