Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 33: Retreat

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative
Lower TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

三雞啄粟,十雛從食。飢鳶卒擊,亡其兩叔。

Three hens peck at grain; ten chicks follow to feed. A hungry kite strikes suddenly; two young ones are lost.

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

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