38 Kui


A Sighting
In small matters there will be good fortune.
====x==== Sighting the fox, he sees pigs covered in mud and a cartload of ghosts. At first he draws his bow, and then he releases it. “No thieves here, only a wedding pair.” If you go on a journey and meet with rain, there will be good fortune.
===   === Problems disappear. Their ancestor bites into the flesh. What harm will there be in going on a journey?
========= Sighting the fox. Meeting the headman. You will exchange captives. Dangerous, but no harm will come.
===   === Seeing a wagon dragging, its oxen held back, its man branded with his nose cut off. What has no beginning will have an end.
========= Meeting the master in the lane. No harm will come.
====x==== Problems disappear. A lost horse. It will return by itself without a search. Seeing a hideous man. No harm will come.

40 Jie


Loosening
The south and west are favorable. If there is nowhere to go, his arrival and return will bring good fortune. If there is somewhere to go, early morning will bring good fortune.
===   === The duke used archers and falcons on top of a great wall and bagged them. All signs are favorable.
===   === The nobleman's rope is loosened. Good fortune. There will be captives among the lowborn men.
========= They loosen his thumbs. Friends arrive and capture them.
===   === Being mounted, yet with loaded backs, lured the bandits down. Omen of regret.
========= Bagging three foxes in the hunt and getting bronze arrowheads. Omen of good fortune.
===   === No harm will come.