Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 10: Treading

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

踝踵足傷,右指病癰。失旅後時,利走不來。

Ankle, heel, foot all injured; the right finger festers. Missing the company, behind the hour; profit runs but does not arrive.

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

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