Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 19: Approach

Limitation
Water / Lake
Approach
Earth / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake Lake

Yilin Verse

奢淫愛嗇,神所不福。靈祗憑怒,鬼障其室。

Extravagance, excess, and miserly greed; the spirits grant no blessing. The gods rage in fury; ghosts haunt and obstruct the house.

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

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