12. Decline · 否 九五
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In practice
The stagnation is ending, but you still need to act with caution until the situation is fully stable.
The poetry
Stagnation comes to rest. For the great person, good fortune. “It may be lost, it may be lost”: tied to the leafy mulberry.
九五：休否，大人吉。其亡其亡，繫于苞桑。
象曰：大人之吉，位正當也。
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