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1) Qian: Creative Action/Heaven

Hexagram:

• C: The activity of heaven is powerful; superior people strengthen themselves ceaselessly.

• L: Heaven creates, develops, brings about fruition, and consummation.

• E: One of the four timeless hexagrams; pure yang represents strength, firmness, life, innate knowledge, primal unified energy.

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Lines:

1 Yang:

• L: Hidden dragon: do not use.

• E: Nurture the early energy rather than use it.

2 Yang:

• L: Seeing the dragon in the field: it is beneficial to see a great person.

• E: Strength is balanced. Natural goodness is manifested in the form of the spiritual embryo.  It is beneficial not to lose innocence.

3 Yang:

• L: A superior person works diligently all day, is careful at night. Danger, but no error.

• E: Working diligently by day and examining faults at night promotes safety.

4 Yang:

• L: Sometimes leaping, or in the abyss: no error.

• E: The complete spiritual embryo takes precautions, while awaiting transmutation.

5 Yang:

• L: The flying dragon is in the sky: it is beneficial to see a great person.

• E: The merging of yin and yang, reality in the Way, brings perfection of the self and others. It is beneficial to help others and the self whenever the opportunity arises.

6 Yang:

• L: A proud dragon has regrets.

• E: Promoting strength excessively without the flexibility to yield will bring failure.

Using Yang: All moving yang lines (all ritual numbers are nines)

• L: Having dragons appear without heads is good.

• E: Acting with correctly balanced firmness and flexibility at the appropriate time is always fortunate.