53. Gradual Progress · 漸 九三
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In practice
If you don't let things unfold at their own pace and try to hurry them, your progress will fail.
The poetry
The wild goose moves by degrees to the high plain. The husband marches off and does not return; the wife conceives and does not give birth. Misfortune. It is favorable to fend off raiders.
九三：鴻漸于陸，夫征不復，婦孕不育，凶；利禦寇。
象曰：夫征不復，離群丑也。婦孕不育，失其道也。利用禦寇，順相保也。
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