Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Limitation
Water / Lake
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep

Yilin Verse

良馬疾走,千里一宿。逃難它鄉,誰能追復?

A fine horse races swift; a thousand li in a single night's rest. Fleeing disaster to foreign lands, who could ever catch or bring one back?

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

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