Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 39: Obstruction

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain Mountain

Yilin Verse

華燈百杖,稍暗衰微。精光欲盡,奄如灰靡。

A hundred splendid lanterns, gradually dimming and declining. Their fine radiance nearly spent, suddenly extinguished like ash and dust.

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

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