Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

跮蹉側跌,申酉為祟。亥戌滅明,顏子隱藏。

Stumbling and slipping sideways; the shen and you hours bring misfortune. In the hai and xu hours, light is extinguished; the worthy one hides himself away.

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

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