Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 15: Modesty

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

龜厭江海,陸行不止。自令枯槁,失其都市。憂悔為咎。

The turtle, weary of rivers and seas; travels on land without stopping. It brings itself to ruin; loses its native waters. Regret and remorse become its portion.

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

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