Stick #64: Misfortunes Never Come Alone (Unfavorable)
屋漏偏逢连夜雨,祸不单行须忍之。先安内后图外事,熬过此关有转机。
Plain reading
When the roof leaks, the night rain follows — troubles arrive in chains. Settle what is within first, then face what is outside; endure this pass and change may come.
Interpretation
This is an unfavorable lot titled "Misfortunes Never Come Alone." Leak and storm together — harm arrives in sequence. "Settle within before outward plans; endure this pass for change" shows order in linked misfortune is itself a way through.
Advice
List every current problem; sort by "stop bleeding, then heal, then nourish." Solve only the most urgent one at a time. Ask family or trusted friends to share the load — do not carry all alone.
From Chen Lin's letter for Cao Hong: "Eclipse of sun and moon brings heaven's calamity" — in linked misfortune, ancient practice was to firm the root first; order brings passage.