Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

跛踦相隨,日莫牛罷。陵遲後旅,失利亡雌。

Lame and halting, they follow each other; as day ends, the ox is spent. Falling behind the distant travelers, they lose their profit and their mate.

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

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