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

Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation has no changing lines. Both hexagrams are identical.

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramWind Wind

Yilin Verse

魴生江淮,一轉為百;周流天下,無有難惡。

The bream is born in rivers and streams; one fish multiplies to a hundred. Circling throughout the realm, encountering no hardship or evil.

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

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