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1. Two people sit face to face drinking. This indicates joy and pleasure.
2. The wine bottle has fallen on the table. There is nothing one can drink.
3. A ball is on the ground. Means ones expectations cannot be realized.
4. There are two Chinese characters that mean "one cannot expect everything the first time; one has to try again and again for success."
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•The image is drilling underground and finding water.
The symbol is many small particles of earth will make a mountain.
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Sin or Decrease brings the highest good fortune when it is combined with sincerity, and there are no regrets. It is a time to be persevering and to undertake something. How? You can use two small bowls for the sacrifice.
Zhan ( ) or hints on divining
1. This is a July hexagram. It is good in summer, fall, bad in winter.
2. Two small bowls for the sacrifice means to restrain one's wrath and repress one's desires. If you can do this, God will bless you.
3. You were miserable at your high paying job with all its luxuries and false friends. Finally, in desperation you gave it all up to take a much lesser paying job you really love. The only friends you have left are the ones who were sincere, and when you get together to relax, you do it modestly and have ten times more fun than before.
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1st Yao. To go to help quickly when your tasks are done is blameless.
But you have to think about how much you may lesson others in taking help.
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1. You have a friend who always helps out when you are in need.
You decide to learn from this and to be helpful like he is. There is prosperity in helping others.
2. Service begets happiness.
3. Heaven helps those who help themselves.
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2nd Yao. It is a time to persevere, but not a time to do things on your own. Without decreasing yourself, you can bring increase to others.
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1. You work for someone else, not yourself. Instead of being too eager to please, you act in a serious and dignified manner, and everyone benefits.
2. It is easy to dodge an open attack but difficult to escape from a clandestine one.
3. One is apt to lose possession of what has been gotten easily.
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MU-3rd Yao. When three people travel together, the number is decreased by one. When one man travels alone, he finds a friend.
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1. When you meet with your two friends the conversation always seems to go around in circles when you discuss what to do. When you meet with only one of them, you settle it quickly.
2. If three of us are walking together: at least one of the other two
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3. The gain more than compensates the loss.
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4th Yao. If you decrease your bad habits, it makes the other person come quickly to rejoice. There is no bad feeling.
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1. You have a good friend, but his constant pessimism and passivity is a disappointment. Then he decides to do something serious about it, and you find he is twice as much fun to know.
2. A true gentleman is glad to admit his own mistakes.
3. You should correct your faults once you are aware of them.
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5th Yao. Someone increases him. Ten pairs of tortoises cannot oppose this. The highest good fortune.
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1. You look for a good mate, but never seem to find anyone you feel is special for you. Then one day this happens, and it is so different and so strong, it is as if fate itself brings it about.
2. You work hard at what interests you, sometimes its goes well, sometimes it plods along, and you persist. Then one day everything falls into place and goes well, and it is as if all the good impulses you've had have come together.
3. It is a most auspicious omen.
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6th Yao. If you increase yourself without decreasing other people, this is blameless. It is a time for perseverance and undertaking something worthwhile. You find servants, but no longer live in a separate house from them.0
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1. You decide to study how to live a good life and you succeed and prosper. Then you decide to share what you know with others, and help everyone to prosper.
2. What one accomplishes should not be a private advantage, but rather should be for the public good and available to everyone.
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1. An official holds a small box. People adhering to the same principles will map their plans together.
2. A person pushes a wooden car. This means to seize an opportunity.
3. There is a deer and a coin. This is a good omen about wealth or a job, and one should act without hesitation.
I mage and Symbol
The image is that a crying snow goose encounters strong headwinds.
The symbol is a constant drip of water can fill a river.
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Yi or Increase. It furthers you to do something. It is a time for crossing the great water.
Than ( ) or hints on divining
1. This is a July hexagram. It is bad in spring and fall.
2. There are three kinds of beneficial friends: honest friends, under-standing friends and learned friends.
3. You have been doing allright in your life, but now you experience a time when everything seems to further your highest visions, and you decide to act on this now while circumstance are propitious.
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