Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 10: Treading

Approach
Earth / Lake
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative
Lower TrigramLake Lake

Yilin Verse

駕龍騎虎,周遍天下;為人所使,西見王母。不憂不殆。

Riding a dragon, astride a tiger, traveling the whole world over; serving another will, one goes west to see the Queen Mother. Neither worry nor peril.

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

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