Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 53: Development

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Development
Wind / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle
Lower TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

姬奭姜望,為武守邦。藩屏燕齊,周室以彊。子孫億昌。

Ji the Duke of Shao and Jiang Ziya; for King Wu they guard the realm. As shield and screen of Yan and Qi; the house of Zhou is thereby strong. Descendants flourish for a hundred million generations.

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

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