Hexagram 7: The Army → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

The Army
Earth / Water
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

胡蠻戎狄,大陰所積。涸冰凍寒,君子不存。

The Hu, Man, Rong, and Di; where great yin accumulates. Dry ice, frozen cold; the noble man cannot survive.

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

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