Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

水深無桴,蹇難何游?商伯失利,庶人愁憂。

Water deep, no raft to cross; in such hardship, how to ford? The merchant lord loses his profit; the common folk grieve and worry.

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

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