益 → 巽
Hexagram 42: Increase → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
→
䷸
巽
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → Wind
Lower TrigramThunder → WindThe Arousing → The Gentle
Yilin Verse
天地閉塞，仁智隱伏，商旅不行，利潤難得。
Heaven and earth are sealed shut; the wise and virtuous hide away. Merchants and travelers do not move; profit is hard to come by.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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