Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 15: Modesty

Limitation
Water / Lake
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

伯去我東,首髮如蓬。長夜不寐,憂繫心胸。

My lord has gone east; my hair is disheveled like wild grass. Through the long night I cannot sleep; sorrow binds my heart.

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

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