Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 10: Treading

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramLake Lake

Yilin Verse

海為水宗,聰明且聖。百流歸德,无有叛逆,常饒優足。

The sea is the ancestor of waters; wise and sagely. A hundred streams submit to its virtue; none dare rebel. Ever abundant and sufficient.

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

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