艮 → 臨
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 19: Approach
䷳
艮
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
→
䷒
臨
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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