損 → 歸妹
Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden
䷨
損
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
→
䷵
歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramMountain → ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake → Lake
Yilin Verse
牧羊逐兔，使魚相捕。任非其人，卒歲无功，不免辛苦。
Herding sheep to chase rabbits; sending fish to catch one another. Entrusting the task to the wrong person; at year's end, no achievement, unable to escape bitter toil.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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