Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 60: Limitation

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Limitation
Water / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

安床厚褥,不得久宿。棄我嘉宴,困於南國。投杼之憂,不成禍災。

A peaceful bed with thick quilts, yet one cannot linger long. Abandoning the fine banquet, stranded in the southern land. The worry of the thrown shuttle does not become true disaster.

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

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