Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous
Lower TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

水壞我里,東流為海;龜鳧讙囂,不睹我家。

Water breaches our village, flowing east to the sea. Turtles and ducks cry in clamor; they cannot see our home.

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

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