Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 59: Dispersion

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

紫芝朱草,與仙為侶;公尸侑食,福祿來下。

Purple lingzhi and vermillion herb, companion to the immortals; the ancestral spirit savors the offering -- fortune and blessing descend from above.

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

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