Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 10: Treading

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

蜂蠆之門,難以止息。嘉媚之士,為王所食。從去其室。

The gate of wasps and scorpions — hard to find rest within. The charming and pleasing scholar is devoured by the king. He is taken from his home.

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

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