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A Victory With an Instruction Attached to It

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A Victory With an Instruction Attached to It

Nine in the third place is a success that comes with an instruction attached, and the instruction is the part a querent tends to skip. The line shows a hunt in the south that takes the chief of the darkness, and then says not to be eager to correct everything at once. Read divinatorially, this is for somebody about to win the confrontation they have been preparing for, and who will be tempted to treat the win as a mandate.

The temptation is worth naming plainly. A person who has just removed the visible cause of a long obstruction has both the standing and the appetite to reorder everything that obstruction touched, and the classic says the appetite is now the risk, not the adversary. This stroke is strong, correctly placed, and at the top of the trigram of clear sight, which is exactly the combination that produces overreach.

When the line changes, the lower trigram Li becomes Zhen and the figure becomes Return, King Wen 24, a single strong line reappearing at the very bottom after everything above it has gone yielding. The destination is the pace the warning asks for. A darkness broken at its head does not become brightness. It becomes the first faint movement of something turning, and the work after the hunt is the slow work of a thing coming back rather than the fast work of putting everything right.

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