Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 15: Modesty

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

暗昧冥語,轉相詿誤。鬼魅所居,誰知臥處。

Dark and obscure, murmuring in shadow; passing along errors to one another. Where ghosts and spirits dwell; who knows their resting place?

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

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