大過

Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding

Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWind Wind

Yilin Verse

旦雨夜行,早遍辟城;更相覆傾,終無所成。

Rain at dawn, traveling by night; hastening to circle the city at daybreak. Overthrowing each other in turn -- in the end, nothing is achieved.

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

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