Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

Following
Lake / Thunder
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Lake
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

兩心不同,或欲西東;明論終始,莫適所從。

Two hearts not in accord; one would go west, the other east. Debating the matter from beginning to end, neither knows whom to follow.

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

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