Hexagram 4 of 64

☶☵ Youthful Folly

Inexperience meeting a problem it does not yet understand.

Upper trigram

☶

Mountain · Gen

Stillness and limit.

FamilyYoungest son

ElementEarth

Lower trigram

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Water · Kan

Danger and depth.

FamilyMiddle son

ElementWater

The image

Mountain above, Water below.

Mountain over Water: stillness and limit meeting danger and depth.

That combination is the whole meaning of hexagram 4. Nothing about it is arbitrary — change either trigram and you get a different hexagram with a different reading, which is why the 64 form a system rather than a list.

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