比	8 Bi Alliance
Good fortune. The original cast of the stalks was superlative. The long-range prognostication is that no harm will come. Hostile countries arrived. The latecomer met with misfortune.
===   ===	He forms an alliance without a leader. There will be misfortune.
=========	Illustrious alliance. With this omen the king mounted a three-pronged chase, but lost the quarry ahead of him. The townspeople are not frightened. There will be good fortune.
===   ===	He sides with an outsider. Omen of good fortune.
=== o ===	He sides with the non-human.
===   ===	He sides with an insider. Omen of good fortune.
===   ===	He sides with those who have captives. No harm will come. They fill the urns with captured goods. In the end an unexpected threat will come. There will be good fortune.
蹇	39 Jian Stumbling
The south and west are favorable; the north and east are not. It is time to see the great one. Omen of good fortune.
===   ===	He stumbles ahead and is prominent coming back. Good fortune. It is time to see the great one.
=========	Great is his lameness. Friends will arrive.
===   ===	He stumbles ahead and comes back in a carriage.
=========	He stumbles ahead and tumbles back.
===   ===	The king's minister stumbles and falls, through no fault of his own.
===   ===	He stumbles ahead and is praised coming back.