Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

天之所有,禍不過家。左輔右弼,金玉滿堂。常盈不亡,富如敖倉。

What heaven possesses; disaster does not pass beyond the house. Left aide, right support; gold and jade fill the hall. Always brimming, never lost; rich as the granary of Ao.

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

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