Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

思顧所之,乃令逢時。洗我故憂,拜我歡來。

Thinking carefully on where to go; and so he meets the right time. Washing away old sorrows; bowing as joy arrives.

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

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