Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 10: Treading

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

䡘䡘轠轠,歲暮偏弊。寵名損棄,君衰於位。

Rattling, rumbling; the year's end brings ruin. Favor and fame cast aside; the lord declines upon his throne.

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

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