Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 32: Duration

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

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramWind Wind

Yilin Verse

心多恨悔,出言為怪;梟鳴室北,醜聲可惡。請謁不得。

Heart full of resentment and regret; words uttered sound monstrous. An owl cries at the northern eave -- its ugly voice is loathsome. Petitions go unheard.

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

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