Hexagram 20: Contemplation → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

Contemplation
Wind / Earth
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind ThunderThe Gentle → The Arousing
Lower TrigramEarth WaterThe Receptive → The Deep

Yilin Verse

精華墮落,形體醜惡;齬齟挫頓,枯槁腐蠹。

Vital essence fades and falls, the form grows ugly and wretched; jarring clashes and stumbling setbacks -- withered, rotting, eaten by worms.

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

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