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On May 16, 2023 at 3:59 PM

A handwritten book is a book?

and received a response of:

55 Plentiful

The Statement of the first hexagram

Plentiful. Progress.

The great king arrives. Do not grieve.

All is right as the midday sun.

The changing lines

The second line:
Plentiful screens.

Seeing the northern stars at noon.

Going brings a strange illness.

The third line:
Plentiful flow.

Seeing darkness at noon.

Breaking one's right forearm. No fault.

The fourth line:
Plentiful screens.

Seeing the northern stars at noon.

Meeting one's great lord. Fortune.

The fifth line:
Receiving the seal.

There are congratulations and praise.

Fortune.

The sixth line:
Plentiful activity in one's house, screened

is one's household. Peering through

one's door: quiet with no people near.

For three years no one visits. Misfortune.

61 Confidence Within

The Statement of the second hexagram

Confidence within:

Pigs. Fish. Fortune.

Advance across the great river.

Gainful purity.

The Image of the first hexagram

Thunder and lightning
come fully: plentiful.
The wise one decides
lawsuits and applies
punishments.

The Image of the second hexagram

Wind above the lake:
inner truth.
The noble one
discusses the law
and grants reprieve
from execution.