益 → 艮
Hexagram 42: Increase → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
→
䷳
艮
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder → MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
孤獨特處，莫依為輔，心勞志苦。
A dead tree stands alone; in all four directions, no village. When wind comes, nothing blocks it; when rain comes, nothing shelters.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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