Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm

Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

昧視無光,夜不見明;冥抵空床,季葉逃亡。

Dim-sighted and without light; night offers no brightness. Groping blindly, I strike an empty bed -- the youngest son has fled.

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

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