大過

Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

廓落失業,跨禍度福,利無所得。

Vast and vacant, livelihood lost; straddling disaster, crossing toward fortune. Profit is nowhere to be found.

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

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