Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramHeaven WaterThe Creative → The Deep

Yilin Verse

鳧鷖遊涇,君子以寧。履德不愆,福祿來成。

A jade-green lake, windless, flat as a mirror. A white egret stands on a rock, calling without alarm. Weeping willows half-conceal a thatched pavilion — one pot of clear wine, accompanied by the bright moon.

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

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