Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 17: Following

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Following
Lake / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

陰升陽伏,舜失其室。慈母赤子,相餧不食。

Yin ascends, yang lies hidden; Shun lost his household. A loving mother and her suckling child — they feed one another yet neither eats.

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

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