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Jie :: Release

Favorable in the southwest1: nowhere to go :: Coming and going succeeds

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6 :: first
Going early, no misfortune.
There is a small window of opportunity for release. Just as the possibilities of escape are closing down you can take a timely step forward and regain your freedom.
9 :: second
Three foxes2 bagged during the hunt. Receive the bronze arrow. Auspicious.
You are released from obscurity. Bagging quarry (three foxes) at a hunting ritual is a very good omen. For your part in a group effort (hunt), you receive a promotion or bonus (bronze arrow) from your superiors. The situation is good all around.
6 :: third
Shouldering a load and riding in a chariot. Bandits are attracted. Misfortune.
Pride in victory brings loss. Flaunting your newfound freedom or bragging about a recent success inspires jealousy in others.
9 :: fourth
Severing the thumb. Friends come to the rescue.
Assistance arrives a little late, but you are released. An error in judgment causes punishment (mutilation), but friends secure your release and help you to avoid further mishap.
9 :: fifth
Releasing the prince. Auspicious. Lesser men rally.
Liberate yourself and others will join with you. When leaders show skill in overcoming personal difficulties, their followers are inspired. Great things can then be accomplished.
6 :: top
The prince shoots an arrow from the city wall tower and bags a hawk.3
Nothing bad.
Though you have been inappropriate, it is not an irreversible mistake. You overextend yourself, but luckily escape the folly of climbing too high. Not mistaking luck for skill, you avoid retribution.
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lie means to cut or loosen shackles. It also means to be untied or disentangled from difficulties. A bad omen is reversed by the release of a sacrificial animal or an exorcism.

Nowhere to go means you have no particular goal or purpose because the freedom to choose is new. You can let things come and go, that is, just let them open up by themselves. After every period of restraint there is a release (south-west). Inhibition naturally thaws like ice in spring.

Auspices

Favorable for cautious, positive or progressive movement. For the best results keep your actions small and focused--others join you to expand the possibilities.

Good for travel, marriage, graduations, and funerals.
Bad for postponement and retreat.
Comment

Jie is about the inevitable end of bondage and restraint. Jie is when fate slips you a small knife in your prison supper. You will succeed, by small measures, to be released from bondage to freedom, from illness to health.

Comply with the divine omens (foxes, arrows and hawks), avoid presumption and freedom will come. The release is not due to your own skillfulness.

You may discover that self-liberation offers practical lessons in leadership.

Other Correspondences
Business: Recovering losses, finding new capital, and working in committee.
Disharmonies: Temporary paralysis, bruising, abdominal obstruction, neurosis, constipation, and qi deficiency.
Prognosis: Good. The patient experiences a sudden recovery. Fatality is also auspicious, in this case, because death is a release from the pain and limitations of a complicated illness.