Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 1: The Creative

Return
Earth / Thunder
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative

Yilin Verse

任重負力,東征不伏。陷泥履塗,雄師敗覆。

Bearing heavy loads with failing strength, the eastern campaign meets no submission. Mired in mud, treading through muck; the mighty army is routed and overturned.

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

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