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Chapter 25 of 34
Huang Jin Ce — Golden Strategies
Life has its ups and downs 🌊, and the world alternates between peace and turmoil ⛰. Lamenting one's frail fate often coincides with an era of chaos and displacement; whenever one reaches a dead end, the principles of change from the Book of Changes are applied for adaptation? Thus, recorded and verified patterns of hexagram lines are used to determine the movements of bandits today? When the Official Ghost line is strong 🔥, bandit forces are bound to run rampant; when the Official line enters a tomb or exhausted position 🌱, can people's hearts find peace? If ominous signs appear on the road (e.g., the Official Ghost line moves), avoid going out ⚠️; if danger signals arise at home, do not rush back? If a moving line brings punishment or harm, even wisdom may not offer escape; if a changing line enters emptiness, can one still break free even if detained?
The Day Master can subdue ominous signs, so why worry about punishments in the hexagram? When the Month Builder occupies an auspicious position, do not speak of hidden dangers within the lines? What is detested is the "aroused spirit" (referring to the stimulated Official Ghost line); what is relied upon is the "place of death" (where the Official Ghost line declines)? If one's self holds a Ghost Tomb (an inauspicious position), do not hide in graves; if encountering the Water Spirit (the Kan hexagram 🌊), exercise caution on boats? When the Offspring line (symbolizing blessing and virtue) is strong, heading north is advisable; when the Official line of Noon Fire is vigorous, avoid going south?
If the Official Ghost encounters dispersion, there is no need to deliberately restrain it; if the Offspring line meets emptiness, is it not better to seek a nurturing position? If the Official Ghost prospers in the inner trigram, bandits will eventually come to ravage this region; if it changes into a retreating spirit, will they surely go to plunder other lands? If the Official Ghost is continuously strong and the Offspring line combines to generate the self, does misfortune turn to fortune? If Yang changes to Yin and punishes or overcomes the self-line, does falsehood become truth? If bandits arise within a Three-Harmony line combination, will they inevitably fall into a trap? If the self resides in a six-day emptiness, can one ultimately escape the cage?
If the Official Ghost approaches the self, no matter how you hide, you will encounter it; if the Offspring line holds the self-position, even face-to-face, will you not meet? If the Brother line changes into an Official line, beware of plunder by fellow villagers; if the Wealth line is connected to Ghost and Sha, guard against hidden private stores? If the Day Master clashes and overcomes the Wealth line, will wife and children be scattered? If moving signs punish and harm the Offspring line, will children be abandoned? If Fire moving overcomes the self 🔥, fear the suffering of being burned; if Water rising injures the self 🌊, will it surely lead to a devastating disaster? If the Parent line is empty, guard against loss of baggage; if the Wealth line falls into a trap, beware of losing property?
If the fifth line is active and changing, the whereabouts of two households are unknown; if all six lines move chaotically, family members scatter in all directions? If the Offspring line approaches the Ghost position with punishment, clash, and Sha, then government troops act unjustly; if the Official line changes into a Brother line, overcoming, combining, and injuring wealth, then wives and concubines suffer violation? If the Wealth line goes to generate and support an inauspicious line, does seeking wealth alone turn into disaster? If the Offspring line comes with impulse, is it all due to children's crying provoking calamity? If encountering the prosperity of the Six Relatives, though dangerous, is there no harm? If facing the Four Exhaustions with punishment and injury, will encountering hardship lead to death? For the self-line encountering chaos and displacement, can decisions already be made based on line images? When facing calamity and hardship, should one also deduce according to the hexagram images? Most fear the Official Ghost line overcoming the self, for then avoidance is surely difficult; most favorable is the Offspring line approaching the self, for then escape is ultimately possible?
If the Official changes into Parent with clash, there will surely be arrest by document; if the Day clashes and the Official disperses, will many relatives and friends provide support? If the Ghost is hidden and the Brother line clashes to raise it, calamity arises from kin; if the Official is still and a neighboring line punishes or overcomes, does the matter stem from clerks or documents? If the Response line suffers injury, it will implicate many people; if the Wealth line receives overcoming, it will surely damage property? Generally, it is favorable for all six lines to be still, and also favorable for a hexagram to have no Official line, or for the self and world lines to encounter emptiness, or for the Used Spirit to obtain a favorable position? Then even heaven-sized matters are no hindrance, and sea-deep hatreds are not worth worrying about? Affairs have a hundred aspects, but principle is without duality. Delve into study with concentration; if one can master and integrate, deduce and divine according to principle, naturally one will achieve roundness and fluency without stagnation!