Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramWater Water

Yilin Verse

寒露所降,凌制堅冰,草木瘡傷,花落葉亡。

Cold dew descends; frost commands hard ice. Plants and trees are wounded; flowers fall, leaves perish.

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

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