Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron

Approach
Earth / Lake
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramLake WindThe Joyous → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

千歲廟堂,棟橈傾僵;天厭周德,失其寵光。

The temple of a thousand years, its ridgepole bends and collapses; heaven grows weary of Zhou virtue -- it loses its favored brilliance.

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

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