Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 53: Development

Return
Earth / Thunder
Development
Wind / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle
Lower TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

春生夏乳,羽毛成就,舉不失宜,君臣相好。盜走奔北,終無有晦。

Born in spring, nursed in summer; plumage fully formed. Rising at the proper time; lord and minister in mutual accord. Thieves flee and run north; in the end, no darkness.

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

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