Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 12: Standstill

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Standstill
Heaven / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

操耜鄉畝,折貨稷黍。飲食充口,安利無咎。

Taking plow to face the furrows; harvesting millet and grain. Food and drink fill the mouth; at peace and profitable, without fault.

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

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