Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

邯鄲反言,父兄生患;涉叔援俎,一死不還。

Handan's words are twisted; fathers and brothers fall into peril. Shashu seizes the ritual vessel; in one death, none returns.

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

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