Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Return
Earth / Thunder
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep

Yilin Verse

鷂鴟娶婦,深目窈身。折腰不媚,與伯相背。

The sparrowhawk takes a bride — deep-eyed, slender of form. She bends at the waist but will not flatter; she turns her back on her lord.

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

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