大過

Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding

The Receptive
Earth / Earth
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous
Lower TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

瘤癭禿疥,為身瘡害。疾病癃殘,常不遠逮。

Tumors, goiters, baldness, and scabies; sores and afflictions of the body. Illness and crippling disability; always one falls short and cannot reach.

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

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