Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 48: The Well

Coming to Meet
Heaven / Wind
The Well
Water / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven WaterThe Creative → The Deep
Lower TrigramWind Wind

Yilin Verse

先易後否,失我所市。騷蘇自苦,思吾故土。

Easy at first, then adverse; I lose what I came to trade. Troubled and bitter, suffering alone; I long for my native soil.

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

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