Hexagram:Limitation Hexagram:Keeping Still

I Ching Transformation

60
Limitation
Jie
Water / Lake
52
Keeping Still
Gen
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater Mountainabysmal to stillness
Lower TrigramLake Mountainjoyous to stillness

Yilin Verse

噂噂囁囁,夜行晝伏。謀議我資,來竊吾室。

Murmuring and whispering; traveling by night, hiding by day. Plotting to seize my wealth; coming to rob my home.

— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 60 (Limitation) to hexagram 52 (Keeping Still). In the I Ching, when a reading produces changing lines, the hexagram transforms into another hexagram, providing guidance for both the current situation and its eventual evolution.