Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 48: The Well

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
The Well
Water / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

冬采微蘭,地凍堅難。利走室北,暮无所得。

Gathering orchids in winter; the ground is frozen and unyielding. Better to hasten to the north chamber; by evening, nothing is gained.

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

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