“Forward and backward, abyss on abyss. In danger like this, pause at first and wait.”
No matter which way you look, there is Danger. The only thing you can do about it at the moment is sit and wait.
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Line 3 sounds very much like the main message: there is Danger for you in every direction.
The Book of Changes says: Don’t be lured into action by fear or frustration. A time is coming when you can flow through this situation without damage.
Receiving a changing line that is, in essence, the same message as the main message is the Yi’s way of delivering a psych dope slap up the side of your head: Pay attention!
We have one more changing line to consider, Line 5.
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Tomorrow: Line 5. ” . . . if one does not lose one’s self-confidence . . . “
“The way in which the Book of Changes works can best be compared to an electrical circuit reaching into all situations. The circuit only affords the potentiality of lighting; it does not give light. But when contact with a definite situation is established in the questioner, the ‘current’ is activated, and the given situation is illumined.”
Richard Wilhelm
Book of Changes 