小過

Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding

Modesty
Earth / Mountain
小過
Small Exceeding
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

梅李冬實,國多賊盜;擾亂並作,王不能制。

Plum and apricot bear fruit in winter; the state swarms with thieves and bandits. Turmoil erupts on every side; the king cannot control it.

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

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