Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm

Treading
Heaven / Lake
Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven ThunderThe Creative → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

封豕溝瀆,水潦空谷;客止舍宿,泥塗至腹。處無黍稷。

The great boar roots in the ditch; floodwater fills the hollow valley. The traveler halts to lodge for the night; mud rises to his belly. There is no millet or grain.

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

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