Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

缺囊破筐,空無黍稷。不媚如公,棄於糞墻。

A torn sack, a broken basket; empty of millet and grain. Without flattery, upright as a duke; cast aside by the dung wall.

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

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