Hexagram 20: Contemplation → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Contemplation
Wind / Earth
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind ThunderThe Gentle → The Arousing
Lower TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

大人失宜,盈滿復虧;長冬之木,盛者滅衰。

The great man loses his due measure; what was full now wanes again. A tree in deep winter -- what flourished withers and decays.

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

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