Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative

Yilin Verse

路與縣休,侯伯恣驕。上失其盛,周室衰微。

Roads and counties fall to ruin; the marquises and earls grow wanton. The heights lose their glory; the house of Zhou declines.

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

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