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    On July 16, 2024 at  1:41 PM 
  
  
    
what will be the outcome of talking with CH?
  
  
    and received a response of:
  
  
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    36 Smothered Light
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Smothered light. 
Gain is difficult: persist.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The first line:
    Smothered light in flight, hanging wings. 
The wise one travels and has no food 
for three days, but finds the destination: 
the host responds.  
  
    The fifth line:
    The smothered light of Jizi: 
gainful virtue.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    39 Hindered
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Gain in the west and south. 
No gain in the east and north. 
Gain by seeing the great person. 
Pure fortune.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    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
  
  
    Water on top of the 
mountain: hindered. 
The noble one 
turns inward 
to cultivate virtue.