Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven FireThe Creative → The Clinging
Lower TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

持鶴抱子,見蛇何咎;室家俱在,不失其所。

Holding the crane, cradling her chick; seeing the snake, what harm? The household is all intact; nothing loses its place.

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

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