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I Ching · #5

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Waiting

水天需 Xū

patience timing nourishment

The Judgment

需,有孚,光亨,貞吉,利涉大川。

Waiting. If you are sincere, you have light and success. Perseverance brings good fortune.

The Image

雲上於天,需;君子以飲食宴樂。

Clouds rise up to heaven: the image of Waiting. Thus the superior person eats and drinks, is joyous and of good cheer.

In one line

The time has not come: nourish strength and wait with ease.

Trigrams

Lower (inner)
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Heaven

the sky · Metal

Upper (outer)
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Water

water · Water

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