Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

Following
Lake / Thunder
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake WindThe Joyous → The Gentle
Lower TrigramThunder WindThe Arousing → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

水壞我里,東流為海;龜鳧讙囂,不睹王母。

Floodwaters breach my village, flowing east to the sea; turtles and ducks clamor noisily -- the Queen Mother is not to be seen.

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

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