Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

十丸同投,為雉所維。獨得跳脫,完全不虧。

Ten pellets thrown together; caught in the pheasant's snare. Alone, one leaps free; whole and complete, suffering no loss.

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

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