Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

冬生不華,老女無家。霜冷蓬室,更為枯株。

Born in winter, it does not bloom; the old woman has no home. Frost chills the thatched room; all becomes a withered stump.

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

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