Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative

Yilin Verse

天之所壞,不可強支。眾口指笑,雖貴必危。

What heaven itself would destroy cannot be propped up by force. The crowd points and laughs; though noble, one must come to peril.

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

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