Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Limitation
Water / Lake
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

文明之世,銷鋒鑄耜。以道順民,百王不易。

In an age of culture and enlightenment, spear tips are melted into plowshares. Governing the people through the Way; a hundred kings would not alter this.

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

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