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Splitting Apart
Missing person

He sent his parents a letter telling them not to look (Bo→Jin, April 1989)

1989-04-29

Context

Mr. Khuong from Hubei left home; over four months of searching produced no news. The employer came to Xi'an for a reading. The hexagram cast was Bo transforming into Jin.

Six-Line Chart

Line Can Chi Five Elements Six Relations Moving
6 Yin Wood Wood Wife/Wealth
5 Zi Water Water Children
4 Xu Earth Earth Parents
3 Mao Wood Wood Wife/Wealth
2 Si Fire Fire Officials
1 Wei Earth Earth Parents
Officials Parents Wife/Wealth Siblings Children ● Changing line

Transformed Hexagram

#35
Progress

Analysis

Children Zi Water transforms into Wei Earth — southwest. Parents Xu Earth moves and restrains the Use Spirit Zi Water; the Use Spirit transforming into something that turns back to restrain it signals anger. Parents thriving and moving means a letter. Kun is cloth and soft objects — the letter is left under a pillow. Use Spirit Zi Water remaining still means no wish to return. The Use Spirit falls in extinct phase by month and day, and a moving line restrains it with reciprocal restraint. Bo has five yin and one yang — the image of falling.

Actual outcome

He left two letters — for his parents and his sister — telling them not to search. Mostly ill, little good — he did not return.

Source: Vol III ch4 ví dụ 5, khoảng dòng 36513-36574