Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 53: Development

Limitation
Water / Lake
Development
Wind / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

騂牛亡子,鳴於大野。申復陰徵,還歸其母,說以除悔。

The red cow has lost her calf; she lows across the great plain. Calling again with hidden summons; she returns to her mother, sorrow dispelled.

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

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