Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

豺狼所言,語无成全。誤我白馬,使乾口來。

What the wolf and jackal speak; their words hold nothing true. They deceive my white horse; making it come with a parched mouth.

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

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