甲
jia3Mathews: 0610
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Concordance & Context (5 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 18.0
Gua Ci★
(the) beginning, start, new cycle, departure +
蠱,元亨,利涉大川。先甲三日,後甲三日。
Most fulfilling
Worthwhile to cross the great stream
Before the beginning, three days
After the beginning, three days
Stats: 102+0→ 18.0
(the) beginning, start, new cycle, departure
蠱,元亨,利涉大川。先甲三日,後甲三日。
Most fulfilling
Worthwhile to cross the great stream
Before the beginning, three days
After the beginning, three days
Tuan Zhuan
(the) beginning
蠱,剛上而柔下,巽而止,蠱。蠱元亨,而天下治也。利涉大川,往有事也。先甲三日,後甲三日,終則有始,天行也。
Detoxifying
The firm (is) above while the flexible (is) below
Adaptive and yet motionless
Fixations
Detoxifying (is) most fulfilling:
As all under heaven (is) healed
Worthwhile to cross the great stream:
(In) moving on there is work to do
Before the beginning, three days,
After the beginning, three days:
In the end, in due order, there will be a beginning
As heaven behaves
(the) beginning
蠱,剛上而柔下,巽而止,蠱。蠱元亨,而天下治也。利涉大川,往有事也。先甲三日,後甲三日,終則有始,天行也。
Detoxifying
The firm (is) above while the flexible (is) below
Adaptive and yet motionless
Fixations
Detoxifying (is) most fulfilling:
As all under heaven (is) healed
Worthwhile to cross the great stream:
(In) moving on there is work to do
Before the beginning, three days,
After the beginning, three days:
In the end, in due order, there will be a beginning
As heaven behaves
Tuan Zhuan
begin, start; bud
觧,險以動,動而免乎險,觧。觧利西南,往得衆也。其來復吉,乃得中也。有攸往,夙吉,往有功也。天地觧而雷雨作,雷雨作而百果草木皆甲坼。觧之時大矣哉!
Release
Crisis leads to movement
Movement then gets free of crisis
Released
Release favors the west to the south:
To go (is) to gain the multitude
One’s coming return (is) promising:
Here to find the center
(In) having somewhere to go, to be prompt (is) promising:
(In) making progress there will be achievement
Heaven (and) earth let loose as thunder (and) rain get to work
Thunder (and) rain go to work, and hundreds of seed pods
Of plants (and) trees, as one, begin to burst
Release’s opportune timing (is) very important now!
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Homophones (jia)
嘉jia1excellence, quality; (the) excellent, credible家jia1(a, the) family, house, household, home, dwelling, domestic affair, clan, class, profession, relative (s); (ruling) families; familiar, kindred; school of thought, specialist; (to be) familial, familiar, at home, domestic, indoors; (to) keep a household; live with, together (s, ed, ing); (a, the) family’s, household’s頰jia2} jawbones: (and) mandible, jowls假jia3comes, goes to, draws near to; approaches "
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