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3) Jun: Difficulty

Hexagram:

• C: Thunder in the clouds is held back; superior people order and arrange.

• L: Creativity and development are effective if correct. Do not use (be clean and safe). There is a place to go. It is beneficial to set up a ruler.

• E: Beginning the difficult process of breaking out of acquired temporal conditioning and bringing the strength of the primordial forward, known as "advancing the yang fire."

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Lines:

1 Yang:

• L: Not going anywhere, it is beneficial to be correct. It is beneficial to set up a ruler.

• E: It is beneficial to be firm in the beginning of difficulty; nurture the original energy.

2 Yin:

• L: Difficult to advance, hard to make progress. Mounted on a horse, not going forward. It is not a matter of enmity, but marriage. The girl is chaste, not engaged: after ten years she is engaged.

• E: While amidst difficulty, it is hard to progress, so it is beneficial to wait and refine the mind.

3 Yin:

• L: Chasing deer without a guide, just going into the forest. The superior person, knowing the dangers, had better give up, to go would mean regret.

• E: It is beneficial to be patient about accomplishment when in difficulty.

4 Yin:

• L: Mounted on a horse yet not going forward. Seeking marriage, it is good to go, beneficial all around.

• E: Being flexible yet correctly oriented, one is seeking solutions according to the difficult situation.

5 Yang:

• L: Stalling the benefits. Rectitude in small matters is good. Self righteousness in great matters brings misfortune.

• E: The spiritual embryo has formed but negativity still presents danger. Therefore it is beneficial to not indulge in self righteousness.

6 Yin:

• L: Mounted on a horse, not going forward, weeping tears of blood.

• E: Seeing but not touching true yang, is having difficulty when there is no difficulty.