中孚

Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth

Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
中孚
Inner Truth
Wind / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle
Lower TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

商人子孫,資無所有;貪狼逐狐,留連都市。還轅內鄉,嘉喜何咎。

The merchant descendants, their resources exhausted; greedy as wolves, they chase the fox, lingering in the city. Turning the carriage homeward -- what blame in joy?

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

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