Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 41: Decrease

Conflict
Heaven / Water
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

爭訟不已,更相擊劍。張季弱口,被髮北走。

Litigation without end, striking each other with swords. Zhang Ji, weak of mouth, flees with hair unbound to the north.

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

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