Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

Waiting
Water / Heaven
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

杜飛門啟,患憂大解。脩福行善,不為身禍。

The closed gate opens; worry and trouble are greatly resolved. Cultivating blessings, practicing virtue; one does not bring calamity upon oneself.

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

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