Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 41: Decrease

Limitation
Water / Lake
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake Lake

Yilin Verse

積冰不溫,北陸苦寒。露宿多風,君子傷心。

Accumulated ice never warms; the northern road suffers bitter cold. Sleeping exposed to much wind; the gentleman's heart is wounded.

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

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