Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWater Water

Yilin Verse

防輿疲駟,不任衘轡。君子服之,談何容易。

A war carriage with weary steeds; they cannot bear the bit and bridle. The noble man undertakes the task — how easily said, how hard to do.

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

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