Hexagram 7: The Army → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet

The Army
Earth / Water
Coming to Meet
Heaven / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative
Lower TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

多載重負,捐棄于野。予母誰子,但自勞苦。

Armor head to toe, sweat soaking through the clothes. The battle ends without glory — returning to the fields to plant mulberry.

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

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