Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 60: Limitation

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Limitation
Water / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

文王四乳,仁愛篤厚。子畜十男,無有折夭。

King Wen with four nipples; his benevolence and love deep and generous. He reared ten sons; not one cut short or lost to early death.

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

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