坎 → 遯
Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water → Hexagram 33: Retreat
䷜
坎
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
→
䷠
遯
Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → HeavenThe Deep → The Creative
Lower TrigramWater → MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
匏瓜之德，宜繫不食。君子失與，官政懷憂。
The virtue of the bottle gourd -- fit to be hung, not to be eaten. The noble man loses his companions; official duties bring only worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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