Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed

The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake WindThe Joyous → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

瘡痍多病,宋公危殆。吳子巢門,无命失所。

Covered in sores and plagued by illness, the Duke of Song stands in mortal peril. Wu Zixu at the Chao Gate; without fate, losing his place.

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

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