Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 41: Decrease

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 1).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

忉忉怛怛,如將不活。黍稷之恩,靈輒以存。

Grieving and anguished, as if one cannot survive. But the grace of millet and grain—Ling Zhe is thereby preserved.

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

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