Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
The Vessel’s ears are skinned and movement hindered. The pheasant fat is not eaten. We are changing the Mandate of Heaven. Rain comes on all sides and lessens the cause of sorrow. Wise Words! Completing this change opens the Way.
Everything feels clogged up now but have no fear. This is the great change, the time to eliminate all the old negativity. The rain will come to wash away your sorrows. Act and have no doubts. You will soon have something great to celebrate. Strip away the old. Gather energy for the decisive new move.
Book of Changes
九三, 鼎耳革, 其行塞, 雉膏不食, 方雨虧悔, 終吉.
Richard Wilhelm
The handle of the ting is altered.
One is impeded in his way of life.
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The fat of the pheasant is not eaten.
Once rain falls, remorse is spent.
Good fortune comes in the end.
The handle is the means for lifting up the ting. If the handle is altered, the ting cannot be lifted up and used, and, sad to say, the delicious food in it, such as pheasant fat, cannot be eaten by anyone. This describes a man who, in a highly evolved civilization, finds himself in a place where no one notices or recognizes him. This is a severe block to his effectiveness. All of his good qualities and gifts of mind thus needlessly go to waste. But if he will only see to it that he is possessed of something truly spiritual, the time is bound to come, sooner or later, when the difficulties will be resolved and all will go well. The fall of rain symbolizes here, as in other instances, release of tension.
