Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Return
Earth / Thunder
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

白馬騧騮,生乳不休。富我商人,得利饒優。

White horses, dun and bay; breeding and foaling without cease. Enriching our merchants; gaining profit, plentiful and fine.

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

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