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On December 6, 2012 at 9:34 PM
does he want to meet me?
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 third line:
Wild swans gradually reach the shore.
A man journeys but does not return. A wife,
pregnant; does not give birth. Misfortune.
Gain by guarding against raiders.
Wild swans gradually reach the shore.
A man journeys but does not return. A wife,
pregnant; does not give birth. Misfortune.
Gain by guarding against raiders.
The fourth line:
Wild swans gradually reach the wood.
Some find branches. No fault.
Wild swans gradually reach the wood.
Some find branches. 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.
The sixth line:
Wild swans gradually reach a plateau.
Their feathers can be used for the rites.
Fortune.
Wild swans gradually reach a plateau.
Their feathers can be used for the rites.
Fortune.
51 Thunder
The Statement of the second hexagram
Thunder everywhere.
Thunder comes frighteningly.
People laugh and exclaim.
Thunder terrifies for one hundred miles,
but do not lose the ladle
of sacrificial wine.
Thunder comes frighteningly.
People laugh and exclaim.
Thunder terrifies for one hundred miles,
but do not lose the ladle
of sacrificial wine.
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
Continuous thunder
on thunder.
The noble one examines
his morals
in fear and dread.
on thunder.
The noble one examines
his morals
in fear and dread.
