Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

安上宜官,一日九遷。踰群越等,牧在常山。

Secure above, fit for office; nine promotions in a single day. Surpassing peers and leaping ranks; appointed governor at Mount Chang.

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

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