Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 47: Oppression

The Well
Water / Wind
Oppression
Lake / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

牛耳聾蔽,不曉聲味。委以鼎俎,方始亂潰。

Ox-eared, deaf and shuttered; it understands neither sound nor savor. Entrusted with the cauldron and the chopping board, only then does ruin begin.

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

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