Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven ThunderThe Creative → The Arousing
Lower TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

賦斂重數,政為民賊;杼軸空盡,家去其室。

Taxes and levies heaped and redoubled; governance becomes the people's thief. Loom shuttles and axles emptied out; households abandon their homes.

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

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