Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Lower TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

拜跪請兔,不德臭腐;挽眉衘指,低頭北去。

Bowing and kneeling to beg for a hare; one gets only rotting, stinking refuse. Knitting brows, biting fingers; one hangs one's head and goes north.

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

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