Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle
Lower TrigramWind Wind

Yilin Verse

避患東西,反入禍門。糟糠不足,憂動我心。

Fleeing disaster east and west, he stumbles instead through the gate of calamity. Chaff and husks are not enough; worry stirs my heart.

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

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