Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 24: Return

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Return
Earth / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

獐鹿雉兔,群聚東囿。盧黃白脊,俱往趨逐。九齚十得,君子有喜。

Roe, deer, pheasant, and rabbit gather in the eastern preserve. Hounds—tawny, yellow, white-backed—all go in pursuit. Of nine that are bitten, ten are caught; the noble man has joy.

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

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