Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 49: Revolution

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

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

玄黃虺隤,行者勞疲。役夫憔悴,踰時不歸。

Sickly and staggering, weary; the traveler toils in exhaustion. The conscript is haggard and worn; he does not return for ages.

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

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