Hexagram 33: Retreat → Hexagram 41: Decrease

Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

安坐至暮,禍災不到,利詰奸妖,罪人弗赦。

Sitting peacefully until dusk; disaster and calamity do not arrive. Advantageous to interrogate the treacherous; the guilty are not pardoned.

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

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