Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Approach
Earth / Lake
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramLake Lake

Yilin Verse

乘桴於海,雖懼不殆;母載其子,終焉何咎?

Setting out on a raft upon the sea, though fearful, there is no true peril; a mother carries her child -- what blame can there be in the end?

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

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