大過明夷

Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light

大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
明夷
Darkening of the Light
Earth / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWind FireThe Gentle → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

逐雁南飛,馬疾牛罷。不見魚池,失利憂危。牢戶之冤,脫免無患。

Chasing geese flying south; the horse is swift, the ox spent. The fish pond is not seen; profit lost, peril and worry. The prison’s wrong; released, escaping without harm.

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

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