Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 22: Grace

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Grace
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

嬰兒求乳,慈母歸子。黃麑悅喜,得見甘飽。

The infant seeks milk; the loving mother returns to her child. The yellow fawn, joyful and content; at last sees its fill and is sated.

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

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