Today's I Ching for Edgar Allan Poe

The yarrow have been drawn....

	The present is embodied in Hexagram 40 - Hsieh (Deliverance): Advantage will be found in the southwest. If no further operations are called for, there will be good fortune in returning to the old conditions. If some operations are called for, there will be good fortune in the early conduct of them.
	The second line, undivided, shows its subject catch, in hunting, three foxes, and obtain the golden arrows. With firm correctness there will be good fortune.
	To the subject of the fourth line, undivided, it is said "Remove your toes. Friends will then come, between you and whom there will be mutual confidence".
	The fifth line, divided, shows its subject, the superior man, executing his function of removing whatever is injurious to the idea of the hexagram, in which case there will be good fortune, and confidence in him will be shown even by the small men.
	The situation is shifting, and Yin (the passive feminine force) is gaining ground.
	The future is embodied in Hexagram 8 - Pi (Union): There is good fortune, but let him reexamine himself. Let him divine whether his virtue be great, unremitting, and firm. If it be so, there will be no error. Those who have not rested will then come to him. With those who are too late in coming, it will be ill.
	The things most apparent, those above and in front, are embodied by the upper trigram Chen (Thunder), which is transforming into K'an (Water). As part of this process, movement, initiative, and action are giving way to danger and the unknown.
	The things least apparent, those below and behind, are embodied by the lower trigram K'an (Water), which is transforming into K'un (Earth). As part of this process, danger and the unknown are giving way to docility and receptivity.