臨 → 兌
Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake
䷒
臨
Approach
Earth / Lake
→
䷹
兌
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth → LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous
Lower TrigramLake → Lake
Yilin Verse
貧鬼守門，日破我盆；孤牝不駒，雞不成雛。
The ghost of poverty guards the gate, day by day shattering my basin; the lone mare bears no foal -- the hen hatches no chick.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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