Hexagram 4 of 64蒙 Méng
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Youthful Folly
The teachable moment.
Inexperience, immaturity, enveloping, concealment, need for guidance, the uncultivated, learning
☶Mountain Above
☵Water Below
Short Summary
FreeA spring bubbles up at the foot of the mountain — water that doesn't yet know where it's going.
You're at the edge of something you don't fully understand yet. That's not a problem. It's the beginning. The hexagram asks you to stay honestly uncertain long enough to actually learn — and to find the mountain you can orient against while you figure out your own direction.
Spring at mountain's foot
water asks the stone its shape;
the stone does not move.