Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 7: The Army

Development
Wind / Mountain
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

鑿井求玉,非卞氏室。身困名辱,勞无所得。

Drilling a well in search of jade, yet this is not the house of Bian. Body exhausted, name disgraced; toil with nothing gained.

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

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