Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 47: Oppression

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Oppression
Lake / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep

Yilin Verse

遠視目盻,臨深苦眩。不離越都,旅人留連。

Gazing afar, the eyes strain; looking down into the deep, bitter dizziness. Unable to leave the capital of Yue; the traveler lingers on, reluctant to depart.

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

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