Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

陽春枯槁,夏多水潦。霜雹俱擊,傷我禾黍,年歲困苦。

Spring drought withers the crops; summer brings too much rain and flood. Frost and hail strike together, destroying our grain and millet. The year is one of hardship and suffering.

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

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