大過

Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Lake
Lower TrigramWind LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

栵潔縲縲,結締難解。嫫母衒嫁,媒不得坐,自為身禍。

Thorns tangled, cords knotted; tied tight and hard to loosen. Momo hawks herself for marriage; the matchmaker cannot even sit. She brings disaster on herself.

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

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