大過噬嗑

Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 21: Biting Through

大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWind ThunderThe Gentle → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

牧羊稻園,聞虎喧讙。危懼喘息,終無禍患。

Herding sheep in the rice garden; the tiger’s roar is heard. Fearful, gasping for breath; in the end there is no calamity.

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

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