Hexagram 31: Influence → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

Influence
Lake / Mountain
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake WindThe Joyous → The Gentle
Lower TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

魴生淮郤,一轉為百,周流四海,無有患惡。

Bream are born in the waters of the Huai; one becomes a hundred. Circling through the four seas; without misfortune or harm.

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

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