Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm → Hexagram 15: Modesty

Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Lower TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

螟虫為賊,害我稼穡;禾殫麥盡,秋無所得。

Caterpillars are the bane, ravaging our crops and grain; wheat exhausted, millet gone -- nothing gained come autumn.

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

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