Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Mountain
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

八面九口,長舌為斧。劈破瑚璉,殷商絕後。

Eight faces, nine mouths; the long tongue serves as an axe. It cleaves the precious vessel; the house of Yin-Shang is cut off with no heir.

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

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