Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 19: Approach

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Approach
Earth / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

逐狐東山,水遏我前。深不可涉,失利後便。

Fishing, the line snaps — the catch sinks into the green pool. The water's depth is unfathomable; the bare hook still dangles.

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

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