Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 41: Decrease

Progress
Fire / Earth
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

仁愛篤厚,不以所忿,害其所子,從我舊都,日益富有。

Benevolence and love, deep and generous; not letting one’s anger harm one’s children. Following me to the old capital; daily growing richer.

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

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