蒙 → 剝
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
䷃
蒙
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
→
䷖
剝
Splitting Apart
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
履位乘勢，靡有絕斃。皆為隸圉，與眾庶伍。
Treading in rank, riding on power; never coming to ruin. All become servants and grooms, companions of the common folk.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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