Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

逐狐東山,水遏我前。深不可涉,失利後便。

Chasing a fox on the eastern mountain; water blocks my way. Too deep to wade across; profit is lost, advantage comes too late.

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

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