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    On December  4, 2010 at  1:38 PM 
  
  
    
how should i deal with the situation now?
  
  
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    18 Poison
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Poison brings the great continuing. 
Advance across the great river. 
Before starting: three days. 
After starting: three days.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The second line:
    Manage mother's poison. 
One cannot be firm.  
  
    The fifth line:
    Manage father's poison. 
Make use of honor.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    53 Gradually
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   A woman marries: fortune. 
Gainful purity.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Wind below the mountain:
poison. The noble one 
stirs the people
and nourishes virtue.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Wood on the mountain: 
gradually. 
The noble one dwells 
in high moral character 
and reforms 
popular customs.