Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 12: Standstill

Conflict
Heaven / Water
Standstill
Heaven / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven Heaven
Lower TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

數窮廓落,困於歷室。卒登玉堂,與堯侑食。

Fortune exhausted and desolate, trapped in a bare chamber. In the end he ascends the Jade Hall, and dines beside Yao.

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

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