☰天🌌 Heaven
☱澤🏞 Lake
上天下澤,履; 君子以辨上下,安民志。
A body of water lying open to the sky: Treading. Superior people consult both high & low & thereby steady people’s will.
履 : 虎尾,不咥人,亨。
Treading: On the tail of a tiger, which does not bite. Progress & success.
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視履考祥, 其旋元吉。
Watch one’s step — look to one’s conduct — heed the omens, then sublime good fortune.
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夬履,貞厲。
Decisive treading: correct yet dangerous.
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履虎尾, 愬愬,終吉。
Treading on a tiger’s tail with utmost caution turns out lucky.
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眇能視,跛能履, 履虎尾,咥人,凶。 武人為于大君。
Seeing with a squint, walking with a limp. Treading on the tiger’s tail: it bites. Inauspicious. A soldier becomes a ruler.
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履道坦坦, 幽人貞吉。
Treading in a safe & peaceful way. The hermit carries on. Good fortune.
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素履,往无咎。
Plain treading; to go is blameless.