Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 19: Approach

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Approach
Earth / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth Earth
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

受終文祖,承衰復起;以義自閉,雖苦無咎。

Receiving the mandate at the ancestral temple; from decline one rises again. With righteousness one shuts oneself in; though bitter, no blame.

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

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