Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth WaterThe Receptive → The Deep

Yilin Verse

特善避患,福祿常存;雖有豺虎,不能危患。

Skilled at avoiding calamity; blessing and bounty ever abide. Though wolves and tigers lurk, they cannot bring harm.

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

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