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The Complete I Ching for the Millions

From Edward Albertson comes the complete I Ching with detailed instructions for modern readers and shows you how to access this oracle.

Hexagram 17

Sui - Adjusting
Trigrams Above : Tui - Pleasure, Lake
below: Chen - Activity, Thunder

The lower trigram having the trigram of moving and the upper of happiness, this hexagram symbolizes happiness in moving toward a new goal, or into a new way of living; and this calls for adjusting one's manner of thinking

The Image

Thunder beneath the lake
The image of Adjusting
The wise man goes in after dark
To sleep and regain his strength

The Chinese believe that lightning occupies the heavens in summer, but rests in the earth in the winter. This seasonal change necessitates an adjustment in nature. Winter is also considered a time of darkness; thus a man will go into his house to sleep at night. so does the thunder and lighting go to sleep in the winter, resting in the earth, or beneath the lake.

The DECISION

Adjusting affords the highest success
Rectitude avoids reproach
Then two pages discussing the lines.

CONDITION:Soft cover, stated first printng on copyright page, 1969, Sherbourne Press, 188 pages, some curl to cover from being used. Clean.