Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 60: Limitation

The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Limitation
Water / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep
Lower TrigramLake Lake

Yilin Verse

命夭不遂,死多鬼祟。妻子啼瘖,早失其雄。

Life cut short, not fulfilled; death by ghosts and malign spirits. Wife and children weep in silence, early losing their lord.

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

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