A friend is married and living in a foreign country. She has decided to apply for citizenship there. She asked two questions regarding this:

1. What do I need to know about APPLYING for citizenship?

23.3

He splits with them. No blame.

An individual finds himself in an evil environment to which he is committed by external ties. But he has an inner relationship with a superior man, and through this he attains the stability to free himself from the way of the inferior people around him. This brings him into opposition to them of course, but that is not wrong.

I thought this was a strange answer and my immediate thought was that she would leave before she ever got citizenship.

2. What do I need to know about GETTING citizenship?

33.1.3.5.6 to 51

This sounds similar to the first answer.

This is citizenship in an EU country. If she gets it she will then be able to move elsewhere in the EU if she wants. Do the answers indicate that she leaves before the citizenship or after? They both seem to be talking about backing away from something. Is it backing away from applying for citizenship or leaving eventually after she gets it? I myself asked about the future of her marriage and got 38 unchanging.

esolo said:

I thought this was a strange answer . . .

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Other translations are not so ominous.

Takashima:

Negative [yin] III. Is free from blame in the time of Haku [hexagram 23].

Interpretation. "Negative III is free from blame in the time of Haku," because he separates himself from the elements both above and below him.

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In taking citizenship in the country where she now lives, your friend will be separating herself from her native country.

Thank you, pocossin. That makes more sense!

Thank you, Tiger.