Hexagram 52: Gèn (Keeping Still) · Takashima Ekidan

艮为山 · 第 52 卦 · 中文版

Mountain: Keeping the back still, one does not gain the body; walking in one’s c...

Recorded Cases (7)

In the twenty-fourth year of Meiji, I divined the fortunes of a certain cabinet minister and obtaine (Six at the beginning: Stopping the toes. No blame. It is beneficial to maintain lasting correctness.)
At the request of my friend Mr. Ishisaka, I divined about a mining-mountain matter and obtained Gen (Six in the second place: Stopping the calves. He cannot rescue what follows him; his heart is not pleased.)
At the winter solstice of the twenty-seventh year of Meiji, I divined the postwar situation and obta (Six in the second place: Stopping the calves. He cannot rescue what follows him; his heart is not pleased.)
A certain person came to ask for a divination concerning the fortune of a prominent nobleman and obt (Nine in the third place: Stopping at the waist, splitting the spine. Danger; it smokes the heart.)
In the twentieth year of Meiji, a divination was made concerning the fortune of a prominent nobleman (Six in the fourth place: Stop at the body; no blame.)
In November of the twenty-fourth year of the Meiji era, Peer of the House of Peers Hino-Nishi Kō and (Six in the fifth place: Stop at the jaw; speech is orderly, and regret disappears.)
In the third month of the twenty-seventh year of Meiji, a prominent nobleman came and requested a di (Nine at the top: Abundant stopping; good fortune.)

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