Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 19: Approach

Treading
Heaven / Lake
Approach
Earth / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake Lake

Yilin Verse

三羊俱亡,走奔南行;會暮失跡,不知所藏。

Three rams all gone astray, running and bolting south. At dusk their tracks are lost; none knows where they are hidden.

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

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