解 → 蒙
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly
䷧
解
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
→
䷃
蒙
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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