Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 5: Waiting

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Waiting
Water / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep
Lower TrigramWind HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative

Yilin Verse

齎貝贖狸,不聽我辭。繫於虎鬚,牽不得來。

Striking stone with a feather; the wind cannot move it. Fine rain urges travel on, but the dry wheel is sunk in mud.

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

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