Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

鼻頂移徙,君不安坐。枯竹復生,失其寵榮。

Nose and crown shift and wander; the lord cannot sit at ease. Withered bamboo grows again; he has lost his favor and glory.

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

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