艮 → 觀
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 20: Contemplation
䷳
艮
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
→
䷓
觀
Contemplation
Wind / Earth
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Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramMountain → WindKeeping Still → The Gentle
Lower TrigramMountain → EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
衘命辱使，不堪其事。中墜落去，更為負載。
Bearing a mandate as lowly envoy, unequal to the task. Midway, it drops and falls away; replaced with yet heavier burdens.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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