Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 47: Oppression

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Oppression
Lake / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

坤厚地德,庶物蕃息。平康正直,以綏大福。

Fertile fields stretch without limit; cattle and sheep fatten on their own. The farmer leans on his hoe, smiling at the distant mountains.

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

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