Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 31: Influence

Grace
Mountain / Fire
Influence
Lake / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

三足俱行,傾危善僵。六指不使,慁累弟兄。樹柱閡車,失其正當。

Three legs walking together, prone to topple and fall. Six fingers one cannot use; a burden and trouble to one's brothers. A pillar set to block the cart; it loses its proper course.

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

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