Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 33: Retreat

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramMountain Mountain

Yilin Verse

堅冰黃鳥,帝哀悲愁。不見白粒,但覩藜蒿。數驚鷙鳥,為我心憂。

Hard ice, a yellow bird; the emperor grieves in sorrow. No white grain to be seen, only goosefoot and wormwood. Raptor birds startle again and again, making my heart ache.

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

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