Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

陽孤亢極,多所恨惑;車傾蓋亡,身常驚惶。乃得其願,雌雄相從。

Yang, solitary and at its extreme; much cause for resentment and bewilderment. The cart overturns, the canopy lost; the body is ever anxious and alarmed. Yet at last the wish is gained; female and male follow together.

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

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