Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWind HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative

Yilin Verse

季秋孟冬,寒露霜降;大陰在庭,品物不生。雞犬夜鳴,家擾數驚。

Late autumn, early winter; cold dew, frost descending. Great yin fills the courtyard; living things cease to grow. Roosters and dogs cry in the night; the household is startled again and again.

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

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