Hexagram 20: Contemplation → Hexagram 31: Influence

Contemplation
Wind / Earth
Influence
Lake / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous
Lower TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

晝臥里門,悚惕不安;目不得閡,鬼搔我足。

Lying by day at the village gate, startled and ill at ease; the eyes cannot close -- ghosts scratch at my feet.

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

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