漸 → 坎
Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water
䷴
漸
Development
Wind / Mountain
→
䷜
坎
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → WaterThe Gentle → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain → WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Yilin Verse
危坐至暮,請求不得。膏澤不降,政戾民惑。
Sitting upright in peril until nightfall; his plea gains nothing. Bounteous rain does not descend; governance goes astray, the people are bewildered.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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