Hexagram 20: Contemplation → Hexagram 10: Treading

Contemplation
Wind / Earth
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative
Lower TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

逐禍除患,道德神仙;遏惡萬里,常歡以安。

Driving out calamity and banishing misfortune, the Way, its virtue, and the immortals; evil held at bay for ten thousand miles -- ever joyful and at peace.

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

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