23. Po; Splitting apart Above; Ken Keeping Still mountain Blow; K'un the Receptive earth
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21st Century |
Comparisons |
| The Morlocks are about.
Rising like moles from the depths they undermine, like sappers undermining a
wall. A fifth column spreading rumour and disquiet.
Troughs are as peaks, inversions, things commensurate. Everything has an opposite, a shadow. Bad times come bringing woe to the ill prepared. Like a run of bad luck. Drawn into a web through events and circumstances beyond control you feel as if nothing could be any worse. Be assured things can always become worse if you consistently react. In the end events do turn. They turn because you act. You allow the feminine principle to energise you; the self preserving nurturing, aspect which allows for regeneration. Self awareness, and focus will preserve when under assault by misfortune. Sobriety sense and purpose will be your saving grace. Belief in yourself and trust in the benefits of calmness assists with bending to any circumstance. Open mind and spirit will do the rest. |
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a) one overturning the couch by injuring its legs. (The injury will go on to) the destruction of (all) firm correctness, and there will be evil.
b) The leg of the bed is split. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
c) The couch is overturned by hacking off its legs. Ominous. Destruction if you keep to your course.
d) Injure the couch's legs, soon all will go
a) one overthrowing the couch by injuring its frame. (The injury will go on to) the destruction (all) firm correctness, and there will be evil.
b) The bed is split at the edge. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
c) The couch is overturned by hacking its frame. Ominous. Destruction if you keep to your course.
d) Injure its frame, soon total overthrow.
a) among the over throwers, but there will be no error.
b) He splits with them. No blame.
c) He is among those who overturn the couch. No mistakes.
d) Destroy, when need is - will not wisdom show?
a) having overthrown the couch, and ( going to injure) the skin (of him who lies on it). There will be evil.
b) The bed is split up the skin. Misfortune.
c) He overturns the couch and bruises the man who was on it. Ominous.
d) The couch destroyed, its occupant hath woe.
a) (leading on the others like) a string of fishes, and (obtaining for them) the favour that lights on the inmates of the palace. There will be advantage in every way.
b) A shoal of fishes. Favour comes through the court ladies. Everything acts to further.
c) He leads others along like fish on a line and obtains for them favors usually reserved for the royal household. Improvement in every way.
d) Be loyal, help thy followers; all's aglow.
a) (as) a great fruit which has not been eaten. The superior man finds (the people again) as a chariot carrying him. The small men ( by their course) overthrow their own dwellings.
b) There is a large fruit still uneaten. The superior man receives a carriage. The house of the inferior man is split apart.
c) He is like a large fruit still uneaten. The man finds the people who will carry him like a chariot. Smaller men overturn their own dwellings.
d) They'll bear thee brave; the small man digs his grave.