Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 1: The Creative

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative

Yilin Verse

思初道古,哀吟無輔。陽明不制,上失其所。

Pondering beginnings, tracing antiquity; mournful chanting, without support. The bright yang cannot restrain; the superior loses his proper place.

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

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