Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 22: Grace

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Grace
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

十雌百雛,常與母俱;抱雞搏虎,誰敢害諸?

Ten hens, a hundred chicks, always together with the mother. Carrying a chicken to fight a tiger; who would dare to harm them?

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

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