大過

Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed

大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWind Wind

Yilin Verse

膠車駕東,與雨相逢。故革懈惰,頹輪獨坐。憂不為禍。

A glue-sealed cart drives east; it meets the rain upon the road. Old leather, slack and worn; the wheel collapses, he sits alone. Worry does not become disaster.

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

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