Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 5: Waiting

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Waiting
Water / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative

Yilin Verse

范公鴟夷,善賈飾資。東之營丘,易字子皮。把珠載金,多得利歸。

Lord Fan hides in a leather sack; a shrewd merchant who adorns his capital. Going east to Yingqiu, he takes the name Zipi. Grasping pearls, laden with gold; he returns with great profit.

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

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