Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 20: Contemplation

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Contemplation
Wind / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind Wind
Lower TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

讒言亂國,覆是為非。伯奇流離,恭子憂哀。

Slanderous words disorder the state; right becomes wrong. Bo Qi wanders in exile; the filial son grieves in sorrow.

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

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