Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 35: Progress

Return
Earth / Thunder
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

飛至日南,還歸遼東。雌雄相從,和鳴雍雍。解我迥春。

Flying south to Rinan; returning home to Liaodong. Female and male follow together; singing in harmony, yong yong. Releasing me from lingering spring.

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

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