Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Treading
Heaven / Lake
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

群虎入邑,求索肉食;大人衛守,君不失國。

A pack of tigers enters the city, seeking meat to devour. The great man stands guard; the lord does not lose his state.

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

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