Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

履祿綏厚,載福受祉,衰微復起,繼世長久,疾病獻麥,晉人赴告。

Treading in blessings, receiving thick favor; bearing fortune, accepting benediction. From decline, rising again; continuing through generations, enduring long. In illness, an offering of wheat; the men of Jin send word.

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

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