小過

Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
小過
Small Exceeding
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

陽不違德,高山多澤。顏子逐兔,未有所得。

Yang does not forsake virtue; high mountains have many marshes. Yanzi chases the rabbit; yet nothing is caught.

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

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