Hexagram 20: Contemplation → Hexagram 48: The Well

Contemplation
Wind / Earth
The Well
Water / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep
Lower TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

驢作龍身,進所無前;三日五夜,得其所欽。

A donkey takes on a dragon body, surging forward where none have gone before; after three days and five nights, it attains the one it revered.

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

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