Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 39: Obstruction

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

司錄憑怒,謀議無道。商民失政,殷人乏祀。

The Director of Records abuses his anger; counsel and deliberation lack the Way. The Shang people lose good governance; the Yin people’s sacrifices are abandoned.

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

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