Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Lake
Lower TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

姬冠應門,與伯爭言。東家失狗,意我不存。爭亂忘因,絕其所歡。

Ji dons the cap and mans the gate, quarreling with Bo. The eastern house loses its dog; they suspect I have no conscience. Strife and disorder, forgetting the cause; severing all former joy.

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

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