Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 6: Conflict

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Conflict
Heaven / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

元后貪欲,窮極民力。執政乖互,為夷所偪。

The sovereign, greedy with desire, exhausts the people's strength. Those in power conflict and oppose one another; pressed hard by the barbarians.

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

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