Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 5: Waiting

Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Waiting
Water / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramWind HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative

Yilin Verse

執義秉德,不危不殆。延頸盤桓,安其室檀。屯耗未得,終無大恤。

Holding fast to duty and virtue, neither endangered nor imperiled. Craning the neck, lingering at the threshold; resting secure in one dwelling. Though stalled and unfruitful, in the end there is no great distress.

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

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