Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep

Yilin Verse

鳧過稻廬,甘樂廣鰌。雖驚不去,田畯懷憂。

Wild ducks pass by the rice hut; happily delighting in the plentiful loach. Though startled, they do not leave; the field overseer harbors worry.

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

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