大過

Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 10: Treading

大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake HeavenThe Joyous → The Creative
Lower TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

狗吠夜驚,履鬼頭頸。危者弗傾,患滅不成。

Dogs bark, the night is alarmed; treading on ghosts’ heads and necks. The endangered does not topple; the calamity fades, does not take form.

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

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