Hexagram 38: Kuí (Opposition) · Takashima Ekidan

火泽睽 · 第 38 卦 · 中文版

Fire over Lake, Opposition: Small matters are auspicious.

Recorded Cases (8)

A friend, Mr. So-and-so, came to ask for a divination about his general fortune and received Dispers (The first nine: Regret disappears. A lost horse—do not pursue it; it will return on its own. Encountering an evil person—no blame.)
In the twenty-third year of Meiji, a divination was performed about the Ministry of Education’s educ (Nine in the second place: Meet the ruler in the alley; no blame.)
One day, a certain friend came and said: “A prominent nobleman has entrusted me with a matter and as (Six in the third place: One sees the carriage being dragged back, its ox held fast, and the man suffering the removal of his hair and the cutting of his nose. No good beginning, but a good ending.)
At the winter solstice of the twenty-ninth year of Meiji, a divination was performed about the actua (Six in the third place: One sees the carriage being dragged back, its ox held fast, and the man suffering the removal of his hair and the cutting of his nose. No good beginning, but a good ending.)
In the twelfth month of the second year of Meiji, on the last day of the month, I borrowed the navy (Nine in the fourth place: Alone in Difference, one meets a great man, and mutual trust is established. Danger, but no blame.)
In the spring of the twenty-third year of Meiji, I divined about the House of Representatives and ob (Six in the fifth place: Regret disappears. His clan bites flesh; going forward, what blame could there be?)
The wife of a prominent family in Tokyo came with her daughter to visit me at my villa and said: “My (Top line: Alone in estrangement. He sees a pig covered in mud, a cart carrying ghosts; first he draws his bow, then lowers it. They are not bandits but marriage partners. Going forward and meeting rain brings good fortune.)
On the tenth day of the fourth month of the twenty-fourth year of Meiji, having nothing to do early (Top line: Alone in estrangement. He sees a pig covered in mud, a cart carrying ghosts; first he draws his bow, then lowers it. They are not bandits but marriage partners. Going forward and meeting rain brings good fortune.)

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