Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramWater Water

Yilin Verse

望鷄得雉,冀馬獲駒。大德生少,有瘳從居。

Hoping for a chicken, one gets a pheasant; wishing for a horse, one obtains a colt. Great virtue begets the young; there is healing, and one settles in comfort.

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

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