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30 Li
Li indicates
that, (in regard to what it denotes), it will be advantageous to be firm
and correct, and that thus there will be free course and success. Let
(its subject) also nourish (a docility like that of) the cow, and there
will be good fortune.
1. The first
NINE, undivided, shows one ready to move with confused steps. But he treads
at the same time reverently, and there will be no mistake.
2. The second
six, divided, shows its subject in his place in yellow. There will be
great good fortune.
3. The third
NINE, undivided, shows its subject in a position like that of the declining
sun. Instead of playing on his instrument of earthenware, and singing
to it, he utters the groans of an old man of eighty. There will be evil.
4. The fourth
NINE, undivided, shows the manner of its subject's coming. How abrupt
it is, as with fire, with death, to be rejected (by all)!
5. The fifth
six, divided, shows its subject as one with tears flowing in torrents,
and groaning in sorrow. There will be good fortune.
6. The topmost
NINE, undivided, shows the king employing its subject in his punitive
expeditions. Achieving admirable (merit), he breaks (only) the chiefs
(of the rebels). Where his prisoners were not their associates, he does
not punish. There will be no error.
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