Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

Waiting
Water / Heaven
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle
Lower TrigramHeaven WindThe Creative → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

晉平有疾,迎醫秦國。病乃大患,分為兩豎。逃匿膏盲,和不能愈。

Duke Ping of Jin fell ill; he summoned a physician from Qin. The illness proved a great affliction, splitting into two demon-children. They hid below the heart and above the diaphragm; the healer could not cure it.

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

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