Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

下背其上,盜明相讓;嬰子兩頭,陳破其虛。

The lower betrays the upper; thieves in the bright yield to each other. An infant with two heads; Chen breaks through its defenses.

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

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