Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water → Hexagram 49: Revolution

The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Revolution
Lake / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

東行亡羊,失其羝牂,少婦無夫,獨坐空廬。

Traveling east, the sheep are lost -- both ram and ewe gone. The young wife has no husband; she sits alone in the empty hut.

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

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