Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 15: Modesty

Treading
Heaven / Lake
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

雨潦集降,河梁不通;鄒魯閉塞,破費市空。

Flooding rains pour down; the river bridge is impassable. Zou and Lu are sealed and blocked; stores depleted, the market empty.

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

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