Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

狐鳴苑北,飢無所食;困於空丘,莫與同力。

A fox cries north of the park, starving with nothing to eat. Stranded on an empty mound, none will lend their strength.

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

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