Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep

Yilin Verse

飢人入室,政衰弊極。抱其彝器,奔於他國。因禍受福。

A starving man enters the chamber; governance declines to its lowest ebb. Clutching the ritual vessels, he flees to another state. Through calamity, he receives blessing.

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

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