Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 19: Approach

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Approach
Earth / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

大斧破木,讒人敗國。東關二五,禍及三子。晉人亂危,懷公出走。

A great axe splits the timber; slanderers destroy the state. The two-five of the Eastern Pass bring calamity upon three princes. The state of Jin falls to chaos; Duke Huai flees in exile.

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

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