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1. A fall of rain. Freshening and purification.
2. Three children. Something accomplished through young people.
3. High noon. After reaching the zenith, a decline.
4. An incense table. To pray for something.
5. A government official wearing a golden robe. One should work hard in order to have a successful official career.
I mage and Symbol
The image is a dragon hidden in a crystal clear deep pool.
The symbol is to stay close to good acts and stay far away from evil ones.
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Yi or Jaws. It is good luck to persevere. Pay attention to providing nourishment, and to what a man seeks to fill his own mouth with.
((~~ Zhan ( rS ) or hints on divining
1. This is an August hexagram. It is good in Winter and very bad in Spring.
2. The image of Yi is the mouth and teeth, as shown below.
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1st }ao. You lost your magic tortise, and look at me with the corners of your mouth pulled down. Bad luck. •
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1. You are happy with the good and simple way you live, and then one day your pretentious girl friend drops you for a rich fellow.
You think about how lousy it is too be poor, instead of how lucky you are that your simplicity drives bad people away.
The reputation is not supported by fact.
3 You will be faced with something at once troublesome and ludicrous.
2nd Yao. Turning to the high summit for nourishment and leaving one's path to get nourishment from the hill. If you keep this up, it brings bad luck.
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1 . You give up the little one-man business you created yourself and go to work for a big corporation. You find you don't have to think or use initiative and in a year's time you feel bored, desperate and atrophied.
2. No one is interested in doing a losing business, but you did!
3. You have a deep interest in all that is artistic.
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23 2 The Tao Of I-Ching Chapter Three The Cradle Of Chinese Culture 233 3rd Yao. Turning away from true nourishment brings bad luck if you
persist in it. Don't act this way for ten years. Nothing is worthwhile in this direction.
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1. You don't find the friends you like, so you give up looking harder and drift into a group that is always going from excess to excess and calling it "a good time." One night you see one of them almost killed by one of their excesses, and you realize this is death, not life.
2. The image of this Yao is similar to this situation, you love your dog very much and treat it as your best friend, but the dog always bites and barks at you.
3. Don't make false accusations against others.
4th Yao. You turn to the summit for proper nourishment and this is good fortune. You spy about like a tiger with an insatiable hunger.
This is all right.
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1. You decided on an ambitious and difficult enterprise of great benefit to yourself and others. You search like a hungry tiger for allies in your work.
2. One will not go broke he is frugal.
3. You have to do your job honestly and with dedication.
5th Yao. He turns away from the path. To remain persevering during this time earns good luck. But one should not cross the great water.
Zhan ( r$ )
1. You become aware you just don't have the capability you need to accomplish things, so you turn to someone who has the special skills of character you need for help and learning. As a result you quickly acquire advanced skills, but remember this is not yet your own merit just the influence of help from an advanced person.
2. Happiness lies in rendering help to others.
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6th Yao. The source of nourishment is here. Being aware of danger is good luck. It is a time to cross the great water. Q
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1. Through a life of constant growth you become a spiritual guide and leader to others. The responsibility to be far-seeing and wise is heavy. Your awareness of people's needs leads to great projects, yet the times favor success.
2. You should try repeatedly in spite of repeated failures.
3. You will go through danger as if there were no danger at all.
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Window of the hexagram1. An official is sitting on the car with two flags flying from it. This means an overseas assignment.
2. There is the Chinese character meaning happiness on each flag.
3. Entering the red gates. This means a rich and influential family.
4. An official stands outside of the red gates. This means to be promoted soon.
5. A document. This is a certificate of appointment.
6. A small box. To cooperate harmoniously.
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The image is a decayed ornamental tree producing flowers.
The symbol is weakness both inside and outside — the Yin lines in the first and sixth Yao.
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Daguo, or great passing. The ridgepole sags till it almost breaks. It is a time for action, Success.
Zhan ( ) or hints on divining
1. This is a February hexagram. It is good in spring and bad in fall.
2. Daguo or great pagging is a Youhiin hexagram of Sui or following.
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3. The weather was perfect and your carefully tended garden is growing
23 6 The Tao Of I-Ching Chapter Three The Cradle Of Chinese Culture 237 by leaps and bounds. You are suddenly aware that unless you use
your imagination and move carefully, most of the great bounty coming will be wasted.
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• frP'll1=1 T.I st Yao. He spreads white rushes on the ground. There is no blame.
Zhan ( ci )
1. You and your fiancee will marry soon. You work day and night to arrange everything so it will work out perfectly in settling into your new life.
2. You should take the right remedial steps to correct a shortcoming.
3. He who cannot forbear in small matters spoils great undertakings.
2nd Yao. A dry old poplar has new sprouts at the roots. An older man marries a younger woman. Everything is for the good.
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1. You were in a rut and feeling old and tired, then a new enterprise came along. You took it up and all your fatigue disappeared and you feel like a new person.
2. One will vainly regret in old age one's laziness in youth.
3. Everyone should take care of one's own aged parents first and then extend the same care to the aged people in general.
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3rd Yao. The ridgepole sags to nearly breaking. Bad luck. •
Zhan( )
1. Everything prospers and you ignore advice to slow down and consolidate things. You push ahead, expand more, finally there is so much going on it all collapses.
2. You should make an overall assessment but start with the details.
3. The big mistake has been committed.
4th Yao. The ridgepole is braced. Good luck. If you have ulterior motives, you will be upset. O
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1. You get friends to help dig up old bottles to sell at the flea market.
You come across a rare treasure worth hundreds of dollars and hide it in your arm for yourself. Someone notices, and you wind up with no treasure and no friends.
2. A great man will take time to shape and mature.
3. You will suffer a major setback due to carelessness.
5th Yao. A withered poplar grows flowers. An older woman marries.
There is nothing to blame and nothing to praise. • ti Zhan ( c5 )
1 . Instead of thinking of reviving yourself, you think you'll just pretend you're not run-down and tired out. You do, and nothing comes of it, good or poor.
2. There will be twists and obstacles if a problem or an issue is not settled promptly.
3. The setting sun is warm and beautiful, but it will be the cold evening soon.
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6th Yao. One has to go through water and it goes over your head. Bad luck. But nothing is to blame. •
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1. You see someone in trouble in a burning car in an accident. You rush to help them but the gas tank explodes and you are nearly killed.
'. Don't develop had habits which will destroy you.
3. Turn the head and you can see the shore. which means that repent-ance and salvation is at hand.
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