Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Progress
Fire / Earth
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth WaterThe Receptive → The Deep

Yilin Verse

少無強輔,長不見母,勞心遠思,自傷憂苦。

Young, without a strong protector; grown, he never sees his mother. The heart toils in distant longing; he wounds himself with grief and sorrow.

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

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