Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

Limitation
Water / Lake
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

千歲槐根,利多斧瘢。樹維枯屈,枝葉不出。

The thousand-year locust root bears many axe scars. The tree remains bent and withered; neither branch nor leaf emerges.

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

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