Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 15: Modesty

Oppression
Lake / Water
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

涉尸留鬼,大斧所視。文昌司過,簡公亂死。

Wading through corpses, lingering ghosts; the great axe watches over them. Wenchang records transgressions; Duke Jian meets a violent end.

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

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