Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

稍弊穿空,家莫為宗。奴婢逃走,子西父東,為身作凶。

Gradually worn through, pierced with holes; the household has no head. Servants and slaves flee; the son goes west, the father east — bringing ruin upon themselves.

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

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