Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 41: Decrease

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

脫兔无蹄,三步五罷。南行不進,後市身苦。

A fleeing rabbit with no hooves; three steps and five collapses. Going south it cannot advance; its body suffers at the latter market.

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

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