Hexagram 34: Dà Zhuàng (Great Power) · Takashima Ekidan

雷天大壮 · 第 34 卦 · 中文版

34 Thunder over Heaven—Great Power The Sequence Commentary says: “Things cannot ...

Recorded Cases (8)

A friend came and asked me to divine whether his career would succeed. The resulting hexagram was Gr (Nine in the first place: Strength in the toes. Advancing is inauspicious. There is trust.)
The president of a company came to ask for a divination about the company’s fortunes. The resulting (Nine in the second place: Correctness is auspicious.)
A friend came and asked for a divination concerning the rise and decline of his business. The result (Nine in the third place: The inferior person uses strength; the exemplary person uses the net. Correctness is dangerous. The billy goat butts the fence and entangles its horns.)
In mid-May of the twenty-seventh year of the Meiji era, a certain Japanese minister to Britain fell (Nine in the third place: The inferior person uses strength; the exemplary person uses the net. Correctness is dangerous. The billy goat butts the fence and entangles its horns.)
In the ninth month of the twenty-seventh year of the Meiji era, as Imperial General Headquarters adv (Nine in the fourth place: Correctness is auspicious; regret disappears. The fence opens and is not broken. Strength in the axle of a great wagon.)
One day a friend came and said: Recently there is a certain commodity that can be hoarded for a rare (Six in the fifth place: The ram is lost in the open country; no regret.)
On the twentieth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-seventh year of the Meiji era, an eminent p (Six in the fifth place: The ram is lost in the open country; no regret.)
One day I visited Mr. Sugi. After chatting for some time, Mr. Sugi said to me: Last night a thief en (Six at the top: The ram butts the fence; it can neither retreat nor advance; nothing is favorable. In hardship there is good fortune.)

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