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    On July  9, 2024 at  7:52 AM 
  
  
    
Why so emotional today?
  
  
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    36 Smothered Light
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Smothered light. 
Gain is difficult: persist.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The second line:
    Smothered light: injury in the left thigh. 
Exert horselike strength to rescue. 
Fortunate.  
  
    The sixth line:
    Not a bright night. 
First rise into the sky, 
then plunge into the earth.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    26 Great Restraint
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Gain by being upright. 
Not eating at home brings fortune. 
Advance across the great river.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    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
  
  
    Heaven in the center of a 
mountain: great restraint. 
The noble one 
frequently studies 
the words and prophesies 
of the past, and thereby 
nourishes virtue.