Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet

The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Coming to Meet
Heaven / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative
Lower TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

逐走追亡,相及扶桑,復見其鄉,使我悔喪。

Chasing the fled, pursuing the lost; catching up at Fusang. Seeing one's homeland again -- it fills me with remorse and grief.

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

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