Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 17: Following

Development
Wind / Mountain
Following
Lake / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

聞虎入邑,必欲逃匿,無據易德。不見霍叔,終无憂慝。

Hearing a tiger has entered the town, all rush to flee and hide; no ground to stand on, virtue wavers. Without seeing Huo Shu, in the end there is no hidden evil.

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

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