Swift Success

The Sojourner shoots a pheasant, with one arrow it disappears. Bringing this to completion brings praise and a mandate. You can complete the purpose of your journey with one try. This brings you praise and the chance to serve something great. Although you still feel isolated you have a link to deep energies working at a great distance to create new connections. Push on. You have found real excellence. You are coupled with a creative force.

六五, 射雉, 一失亡, 終以譽命.

He shoots a pheasant. It drops with the first arrow. In the end this brings both praise and office. ##### Comments Traveling statesman were in the habit of introducing themselves to local princes with the gift of a pheasant, killing it at the first shot. Thus he finds friends who praise and recommend him, and in the end the prince accepts him and confers an office upon him. Circumstances often cause a man to seek a home in foreign parts. If he knows how to meet the situation and how to introduce himself in the right way, he may find a circle of friends and a sphere of activity even in a strange country.