Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 41: Decrease

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

庭燎夜明,追古傷今。陽弱不制,陰雄坐戾。

The courtyard torch burns bright at night; pursuing the past, grieving for the present. The bright yang cannot restrain; the dark yin grows bold and sits in defiance.

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

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