Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 35: Progress

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

引順絕糧,與母異門;不見所懽,孰與共言?

Led along with rations cut; separated from mother by different gates. Not seeing those one loves; with whom can one share a word?

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

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