Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 60: Limitation

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

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater Water
Lower TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

避虵東走,反入虎口。制於爪牙,骨為灰土。

Fleeing the serpent, he runs east; but stumbles into the tiger's jaws. Seized by fang and claw; bones ground to ash and dust.

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

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