Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Development
Wind / Mountain
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

眾鳥所翔,中有大怪,九身无頭。魂驚魄去,不可以居。

The ruined temple's crumbling murals still remain — but every deity on the wall has no eyes. At midnight, wind comes and the door opens on its own. The candle goes out, shadows move — no one is seen.

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

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