Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Limitation
Water / Lake
Splitting Apart
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

非理後來,誰肯相與?往而不獲,徒勞道路。

Coming without reason or propriety, who would willingly associate? Going forth and gaining nothing; effort wasted on the road.

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

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