Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous
Lower TrigramHeaven Heaven

Yilin Verse

孤竹之墟,失婦亡夫。傷於蒺藜,不見少妻。東郭棠姜,武氏以亡。

The ruins of Guzhu; husband lost, wife gone. Wounded by caltrops; the young wife unseen. Dongguo Tang Jiang; the Wu clan thereby perished.

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

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