Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 53: Development

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
Development
Wind / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven WindThe Creative → The Gentle
Lower TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

春粟夏梨,少鮮希有;斗千石萬,貴不可販。

Spring grain, summer pears, scarce and rare. A bushel costs a thousand, a stone ten thousand; too dear to sell.

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

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