Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain Mountain

Yilin Verse

空槽注豬,豚彘不到;張弓祝雞,雄父飛去。

An empty trough set out for pigs; the swine never arrive. Drawing the bow to curse the rooster; the cock flies away.

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

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