Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 7: The Army

Grace
Mountain / Fire
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep

Yilin Verse

楩生荊山,命制輸班。袍衣剝脫,夏熱冬寒。立餓枯槁,眾人莫怜。

Fine timber grows on Jing Mountain, its fate entrusted to master builders. Robes stripped away, bare to summer heat and winter cold. Standing starved and withered; no one shows pity.

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

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