Mountain (☶) — Keeping Still

Two yin lines beneath one yang — stillness, boundary, the place where movement ceases. Mountain is the youngest son, the principle of stopping, the quality of knowing when not to continue. It appears in fifteen hexagrams, carrying qualities of rest, contemplation, and the strength required to remain unmoved. The mountain doesn't resist — it simply is what it is, and everything encounters it on those terms.

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