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?
====x==== 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.
========= Problems disappear. A lost horse. It will return by itself without a search. Seeing a hideous man. No harm will come.

19 Lin


Wailing
Your primary plea is heard. Good omen. There will be misfortune until the eighth month.
===   === Earnest wailing. There will be good fortune. No harm will come.
===   === Mastering the rites of wailing for the great lord's sacrifice. There will be good fortune.
===   === Wailing to the extreme. No harm will come.
===   === Sweet tears of wailing. No signs are favorable. When grieving is done, no harm will come.
========= Bitter tears of wailing. There will be good fortune. All signs are favorable.
========= Bitter tears of wailing. Omen of good fortune.