大過歸妹

Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden

大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing
Lower TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

畜水得時,以備火災。柱車絆馬,郊行出旅,可以無咎。

Storing water in its season; to guard against fire’s calamity. Braking the cart, hobbling the horse; setting forth on a journey to the outskirts. Thus there may be no blame.

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

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