Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

Treading
Heaven / Lake
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven WindThe Creative → The Gentle
Lower TrigramLake WindThe Joyous → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

蹇驢不材,駿驥失時;筋勞力盡,罷於沙丘。

The lame donkey is without talent; the swift steed has lost its time. Sinew spent and strength exhausted; collapsed upon the sandy hill.

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

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