Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

張鳥關口,舌直距齒。然諾不行,政亂無緒。

A bird snared at its open mouth; tongue pressed flat against the teeth. Promises and oaths go unfulfilled; governance falls to chaos, without order.

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

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