Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 39: Obstruction

Grace
Mountain / Fire
Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

𨏈𨏈墳墳,火燒山根。不潤我鄰,獨不蒙恩。

Rumbling and heaving; fire burns at the mountain's base. It does not nourish my neighbor; alone, I receive no grace.

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

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