Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed

Development
Wind / Mountain
Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

隨時逐便,不失利門。多獲得福,富於封君。

In spring buy seeds, in autumn harvest gold. Buy low in the eastern market, sell in the western. Riding the wind with raised sail, knowing when to advance and retreat — ten years of common cloth exchanged for purple robes.

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

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