Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 24: Return

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Return
Earth / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

多載重負,損棄於野。予無稚子,但自勞苦。

Heavily loaded, overburdened; goods cast aside in the wild. I have no young child; only toiling bitterly by myself.

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

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