復 → 坎
Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water
䷗
復
Return
Earth / Thunder
→
䷜
坎
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth → WaterThe Receptive → The Deep
Lower TrigramThunder → WaterThe Arousing → The Deep
Yilin Verse
桎梏拘獲，身入牢獄。髡刑受法，終不得釋。耳閉道塞，求事不得。
Fettered and seized in shackles; the body enters prison. Shorn and punished by law; in the end, no release. Ears blocked, the way sealed; what is sought cannot be obtained.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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