Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 60: Limitation

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

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

三人共妻,莫適為雌。子無名氏,公不可知。

Three men share one wife; none can be determined as the female. The child has no surname; the father cannot be known.

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

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