Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 35: Progress

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

鉛刀攻玉,堅不可得。盡我筋力,胝蠒為疾。

Attacking jade with a lead knife; the hardness cannot be overcome. Exhausting all my sinew and strength; calluses and blisters become my affliction.

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

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