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Hexagram 64: Before Completion → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water

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Before Completion
Fire / Water
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramWater Water

Yilin Verse

衘命辱使,不堪厥事。遂墮落去,更為斯吏。

Bearing orders on a shameful mission; unequal to the task. Thereupon cast down and dismissed; reduced to become a petty clerk.

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

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