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1. You have a difficult task to carry out but it is so important to you, you show the greatest patience and moderation in working on it with others, while inside yourself you maintain the highest and most rigorous standards. Everything prospers.
2. As soon as a thing reaches its extremity, it reverses its course.
3. Even though you are in a state of the highest good luck, you have to understand that what happens to a small part may affect the whole.
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1. A man stands on the crag. This means to be in a dangerous position.
2. The flowers are in full bloom and a document hangs from a branch.
Spring is a good time to write.
3. A man pushes a car with a book in it. One needs special express service.
4. A pile of coins and jewels is the omen of fame and wealth.
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The image is a tremendous clap of thunder.
The symbol is what can be clearly heard but cannot be seen.
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Get a job, anything. Your wife tells you. A week later you come home with the news that you've found a new, higher post at a company 500 miles away and you will all have to move. Everyone
is in a furor of upset and turmoil at adjusting, and you are careful to see to it that everything is done right and nothing goes amiss.
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1st no. Zhen or thunder comes upset. Then happy laughter follows.
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1. You find your two year old child who has been lost in the woods 18 hours. Everyone runs in alarm to see if he is hurt, and laughs in relief that he is all right.
2. How can one expect to accomplish great feats without taking risks?
3. It is purely a personal matter. There is no need to let others know.
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2nd Yao. Zhen or thunder comes and brings threat. A hundred thousand times you lose your treasures and have to climb the nine hills. Don't go looking for them. After seven days you will get them back.
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Your girlfriend tells you she is leaving you for another fellow.
You are terribly upset but decide you must accept this. You throw yourself into other activities so as not to become obsessed with your loss, and it works. After a couple months you feel all right.
Later on — you find someone you like even better.
You always speak and behave as others do without views of your own.
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3rd Yao. Zhen or thunder comes and you feel distraught. If it pushes you to action, you will be free of bad luck. •
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1. You work very hard at your new job, and do all right. Then after your probationary period is over, you're fired. For days
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This is an October hexagram, it is good in all four seasons; but especially good in summer.
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Zhen or thunder is a pure hexagram. The image is of shock, authority and movement. People are startled by the thunder; it is
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trying to do something good so as to offend heaven.
You are out of work six months and everyone in the house is uneasy.
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34 2 The Tao Of' 1-Ching Chapter Three The Cradle Of Chinese Culture 343 you are totally depressed. Then you remember what the employer
told you — it wasn't your fault, the company had to cut back.
You push yourself into finding a new job, and the hard work you did previously sets you up to do well in the new job.
2. Ruin falls only on those who have weaknesses.
3. The head of an ox does not match the mouth of a horse.
4th Yao. Zhen or thunder is stuck..
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1. You make a breakthrough of great importance in your work. You are all set to use it, you look around but find there is nothing happening to favor it or even oppose it. For the time being, your treasure is totally hidden.
2. Don't stop your task halfway.
3. You should shun the extremes and to maintain the middle course.
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5th Yao. Zhen or thunder comes and goes. Danger. But nothing is lost, and there are things to be done.
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I. Fate attacks you from a dozen directions, one attack at a time, like a madhouse. Somehow you sense the only wise thing to do — adapt to each surprise as it comes, and after it is all passed, you will have survived to do something worthwhile.
2. Every person has weakness as well as strengths, so the important way is how to take advantage of the good side and avoid or correct the weak side.
3. There is no way of telling his or her real intentions.
6th Yao. Zhen or thunder brings ruin and people gaze about terrified.
To go ahead is bad luck. If thunder has not yet touched you, but it has already reached another, there will be nothing to blame. Although one's friends will be gossiping about you.
1. You go to work Monday morning and find everyone running about in a disorganized way because the plant will close down. You calmly gather together your personal possessions, call the employ-ment agency, and leave for an immediate appointemploy-ment. Your co-workers think you are callous and unfeeling.
2. There will be twists and obstacles if your problem or issue is not settled promptly.
3. It is a miserable end which you are driving towards.
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1. A monkey offers a letter with the two Chinese characters
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meaning northeast on it. One will be finding friends in the north-east.
2. A monkey holds a document. The information one is anxiously awaiting will be received on the day related to the monkey.
3. An official holds a mirror. This means a virtuous official, as the mirror was often used as a salutation to the judge in old China.
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4. Three people are tied to each other with rope. This means a lot of trouble and conflict until the day of the monkey, when there will be an opportunity to resolve it.
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The image is of a fish trying to escape from a net.
The symbol is being at a giddy height, which continues to get higher, little by little.
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Yin or mountain. He keeps his spine still like a mountain so he no longer feels his body. He goes into the courtyard and does not see his fellows. There is nothing to blame.
Zhan ( 1:$ ) or hints on divining
1. This is an April hexagram, it is good in winter, bad in spring and fall.
2. Yin is a pure hexagran. In traditional Taoist meditation it is used as a guide to cultivating Chi energy and concentration of in the back and spine.
3. You have taken up personal meditation for some mo,,ths now, and one day you find the calmness you have sought. You feel