Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 47: Oppression

Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Oppression
Lake / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

陳媯敬仲,兆興齊姜;乃適營丘,八世大昌。

An acorn falls to earth; in a hundred years, a forest. The founding ancestor had no title — the descendants are enfeoffed as lords.

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

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