Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Following
Lake / Thunder
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

亡羊捕牢,張氏失牛;騂駟奔走,鵠盜我魚。

Mending the pen after losing the sheep; the Zhang clan lost their ox. Red horses bolt and run; the swan steals my fish.

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

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