Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 38: Opposition

The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven FireThe Creative → The Clinging
Lower TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

陽旱炎炎,傷害禾穀,穡人無食,耕夫嘆息。

Scorching drought burns fierce, harming the grain and crops. The farmer has no food; the plowman sighs in sorrow.

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

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