Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 42: Increase

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Increase
Wind / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

懸狟素飡,食非其任。失輿剝廬,休坐從居。

A hanging badger feeds freely; eating what is not its charge. Losing the carriage, the roof stripped bare; one rests and sits, resigned to stay.

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

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