Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Following
Lake / Thunder
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing
Lower TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

鄰不我顧,而求玉女;身多禿癩,誰肯媚者!

The neighbor does not look my way, yet I seek a beautiful maiden; my body covered with sores and scabs -- who would find me pleasing?

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

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