Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 15: Modesty

Conflict
Heaven / Water
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

播木折枝,與母別離。九皋難扣,絕不相知。

Wind-tossed tree, broken branch; parted from its mother. The nine marshes are hard to reach; cut off, they shall never know each other.

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

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