大過

Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous
Lower TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

百川朝海,流行不止。路雖遼遠,無不到者。

A hundred streams flow toward the sea, coursing without cease. Though the road be long and far, there is none that does not arrive.

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

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