Hexagram 59: Dispersion → Hexagram 41: Decrease

Dispersion
Wind / Water
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

有莘外野,不逢堯主。復居窮處,心勞志苦。

In the outer wilds of You Xin, he meets no enlightened lord like Yao. Returning to dwell in poverty, his heart toils and his spirit suffers.

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

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