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The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 145

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likely to shew herself stupid, obstinate, tyrannical. She may be quick to take offence, and har‐ bour revenge without good cause. She might turn and snap at her best friends without intelli‐ gible excuse. Also, when she misses her bite, she breaks her jaw!    In the Yî King, the watery part of Fire is represented by the 17th hexagram, Sui. It indi‐ cates reflection upon impulse, and the consequently even flow of action. There is great capac‐ ity for lucid conception and steady prosecution of work; but this is only at the bidding, and  under the guidance, of some creative mind. There is a tendency to be fickle, even disloyal; the  ideas which she obeys make no deep or permanent impression. She will “cleave to the little  boy and let go the man of age and experience” or the reverse (lines 2 and 3) without realizing  what she is doing. There is liability of fits of melancholy, which she seeks to cure by bouts of  intoxication, or by panic‐stricken outbursts of ill‐considered fury.       
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