Question:
‘What do I need to know as I prepare to finish this book and send it out into the world?’
Answer: Hexagram 2, Earth, changing at lines 4 and 6 to 35, Advancing:


changing to


As Kat and I discussed this one in this latest podcast episode, we mentioned…

The glorious Hyperbole and a Half
35 as relating hexagram
Why dragons fight in Hexagram 2 line 6

…and also the ancient form of a couple of words from the text: shi, ‘power’, as in the Image of Hexagram 2 –

‘Power of the land: Earth.A noble one, with generous character, carries all the beings.’

– has two components: ‘strength’, and this one, which is purely phonetic, showing a human figure about to plant a seedling:

From Chinese etymology

And then we also talked about yu, ‘praise’ – you can see early forms of that one here.
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