Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 31: Influence

The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Influence
Lake / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous
Lower TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

三人求橘,反得丹穴。女貴以富,黃金百鎰。

Three men seek oranges but find instead a cinnabar cavern. A woman becomes noble and rich; a hundred measures of gold.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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