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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