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    On December 17, 2023 at  5:32 PM 
  
  
    
Can you please tell me if I have lost my love forever?
  
  
    and received a response of:
  
  
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    36 Smothered Light
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Smothered light. 
Gain is difficult: persist.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The sixth line:
    Not a bright night. 
First rise into the sky, 
then plunge into the earth.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    22 Adornment
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Adornment. Continue.
Slight gain in having a place to go.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Brilliance 
in the earth's core: 
smothered light. 
The noble one
governs the multitude 
by obscurity-
but with enlightenment.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Fire at the foot 
of a mountain: adornment.
The noble one thereby 
governs with clarity, and 
does not dare
to decide lawsuits lightly.