Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

南歷玉山,東入玉關。登上福堂,飲萬歲漿。

Traveling south past Jade Mountain, entering east through the Jade Pass. Ascending to the Hall of Blessings; drinking the elixir of ten thousand years.

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

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