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Abundance vs. Excess
Since I started working with geomancy, I have consistently found Acquisitio, the figure of abundance, to be the most inauspicious figure by a mile: always a signal of extreme stress. This has been a source of great confusion to me, since every textbook I've seen considers it to be, generally speaking, the most favorable figure of all.
Today I noticed Nigel Richmond's commentary on I Ching figure 28, "Excess," which says, "We recognize excess by the stress it creates: without stress excess is felt as abundance."
Oh. Well, then.