Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 15: Modesty

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

日月相望,光明盛昌。三聖茂承,功德大隆。

Sun and moon gaze upon each other; their light is full and glorious. Three sages vigorously continue; achievements and virtue greatly flourish.

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

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