Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Treading
Heaven / Lake
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

本根不固,花葉落去;更為孤嫗,不得相親。

The root is not firmly set; flowers and leaves fall away. Becoming a lonely old woman; unable to draw close to kin.

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

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