Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

杜口結舌,言為禍母;代伯受患,無所禱冤。

Mouth shut, tongue tied; words are the mother of disaster. Bearing another's punishment; there is no one to whom to plead.

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

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