Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Approach
Earth / Lake
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

折若蔽目,不見稚叔;三足孤烏,遠離室家。

Branches snap and screen the eyes, one cannot see the younger uncle; the three-legged solitary crow wanders far from hearth and home.

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

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