Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

歲飢無年,虐政害民;乾谿驪山,秦楚結怨。

A year of famine, no harvest; cruel governance harms the people. Ganxi and Mount Li; Qin and Chu forge their grudge.

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

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