Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 17: Following

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Following
Lake / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

生不逢時,困且多憂。無有冬夏,心常悲愁。

Born out of time; beset and full of worry. Neither winter nor summer brings relief; the heart is ever steeped in sorrow.

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

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