Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 35: Progress

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

有莘季女,為夏妃后。貴夫壽子,母字四海。

The youngest daughter of Youshen becomes queen consort of Xia. A noble husband, long-lived sons; the mother’s name encompasses the four seas.

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

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