Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 60: Limitation

Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Limitation
Water / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep
Lower TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

針頭刺手,百病瘳愈。抑按捫灸,死人復起。

The needle pricks the hand; a hundred ailments are cured. Pressing, palpating, applying moxa; the dying man rises again.

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

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