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Bushi Zhengzong · The Orthodox Tradition of Divination
Golden Counsels · Seeking Wealth
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Seeking Wealth
One who keeps goods is called a resident merchant; one who carries them is called a traveling merchant. Both are planning a livelihood.
Milfoil is used for casting and turtle for divination: both serve the pursuit of benefit.
To ask good or ill, examine only Wealth and Blessing.
Wealth strong and Blessing rising satisfies public or private endeavors alike. Wealth empty and Blessing at Extinction makes every kind of operation go against one’s wishes.
Blessing without Wealth has particular hope if Brothers crosses or becomes heavy. Wealth without Blessing can still be sought if Officer moves.
Both Wealth and Blessing absent is like guarding a stump while waiting for a rabbit. Parents and Brothers both moving is like climbing a tree to seek fish.
The month carrying the Wealth Spirit means wealth will come within the month even if absent from the hexagram. The day injuring the Wife position means none that day even if Wealth is strong.
Repeated Wealth shifts back and forth and needs the Tomb or Storehouse to gather it. Without Ghost there is contention, and crossing or heavy is further feared for obstruction.
Excessive Brothers instead does not control Wealth. Brothers at Body must make one’s hopes difficult to obtain.
Wealth coming to me must be easy in the end. My going to seek Wealth must be difficult.
Body meeting strong Wealth is like taking an object from a bag. Self holding moving Brothers is like fishing for a needle at the bottom of the water.
Blessing changing into Wealth that receives generation brings an inexhaustible, rolling source of profit. Brothers linked with Ghost’s control makes repeated verbal disputes hard to escape.
Parents changing into Wealth means toil that brings gain. Wealth changing into Ghost requires guarding against loss, alarm and worry.
A Wealth configuration combining with the Blessing Spirit permits an abundant source of profit ten thousand times over. Year Ruler meeting Robbery Sha makes the whole year’s business profitless.
Self and Response combining in Void means a hollow agreement is unreliable. Penalty or injury to the governing person’s position means one goes seeking and does not meet them.
Empty and holding Ghost often comes from one’s own hesitation. The day combining with moving Wealth means another person holds it fast.
Reading note: The supplied 徒空 opening is retained through its empty-condition wording; no new line position is supplied.
To know on which day wealth is obtained, stay with generation, decline, strength and combination.
To decide when profit comes, examine spring, summer, autumn and winter in detail.
Partnership need not dislike Brothers. In a public office, why worry about the Officer line?
Practitioners of the various arts particularly welcome Ghost moving to generate Body. Wealth from the six domestic animals and living creatures especially welcomes Blessing rising and holding Self.
Self and Response both with Brothers means lending loses even the principal. Day and month combining means opening a brokerage attracts people who entrust business to it.
Reading note: 同人 is read in the relational Brothers sense, following the corresponding old lending commentary, not as a new hexagram title.
Response falling in Void disappoints the person collecting debt. Self meeting penalty or control means the gambler must lose.
Ghost controlling Body means a traveling trader must encounter thieves. An intervening line rising to harm Self means the person buying stock should be concerned about the broker.
Holding inventory welcomes Wealth still and Ghost quiet. Selling goods suits Wealth moving and Body rising.
Officer on the road means not going abroad. Ghost in the dwelling means not staying home.
No Wealth inside or outside, with Hidden also empty, must mean insufficient capital. Parents and Brothers with qi while Wealth meets Extinction makes contentment in poverty preferable.
Livelihoods have many forms, and divination has more than one method. With sincere, reverent prayer, one can naturally know the gains or losses beforehand.
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