Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet

Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Coming to Meet
Heaven / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramWind Wind

Yilin Verse

心多恨悔,出門見怪;有虵三足,醜聲可惡。嫫母為媒,請求不得。

Heart full of resentment and regret; stepping outside, one meets the uncanny. A three-legged serpent -- its ugly sound is loathsome. With Momu as matchmaker, the suit does not succeed.

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

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