Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 8: Holding Together

The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Holding Together
Water / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

嵩融持戟,杜伯荷弩,降觀下國,誅逐无道。夏商之季,失埶外走。

Song Rong holds a halberd, Du Bo bears a crossbow. They descend to observe the mortal realm, pursuing and punishing the lawless. At the end of Xia and Shang, those who lost power fled abroad.

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

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