Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 12: Standstill

Treading
Heaven / Lake
Standstill
Heaven / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven Heaven
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

怒非其怨,因拘有遷;貪妬腐鼠,而呼鴞鳶,失反被困。

Anger misplaced against the wrong grievance; seized and sent into exile. Coveting a rotting rat; he summons the owl and the kite -- and loses all, trapped in return.

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

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