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I Ching hexagram 60: Thủy Trạch Tiết (節, Limitation)
Hexagram 60 in the received order of the Zhou Yi is Thủy Trạch Tiết (節, Limitation): upper trigram Khảm ☵ (Water), lower trigram Đoài ☱ (Lake); the six lines from the bottom: yang, yang, yin, yin, yang, yin.
- Upper trigram
- Khảm ☵ (Water)
- Lower trigram
- Đoài ☱ (Lake)
- Six lines, bottom up
- yang, yang, yin, yin, yang, yin
- Inverse
- 56, Hỏa Sơn Lữ
- Reversed
- 59, Phong Thủy Hoán
- Nuclear
- 27, Sơn Lôi Di
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