Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 35: Progress

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

兩虎爭鬭,股瘡無處。不成仇讎,行解欲去。

Two tigers battle fiercely; thighs wounded, no part unscathed. They do not become true enemies; the struggle dissolves, both wish to part.

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

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