Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramHeaven ThunderThe Creative → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

純服黃裳,戴上與興。德義既生,天下歸仁。

Wearing pure garments and a yellow skirt, rising to serve and to flourish. With virtue and righteousness established, all under heaven returns to benevolence.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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