Hexagram 31: Influence → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Influence
Lake / Mountain
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

出門上堂,從容牖房,不失其常,天牢北戶,勞者憂苦。

Going out the door, ascending the hall; composed, passing by the window and room. Not losing the proper way; yet heaven's prison faces north. The laborer endures sorrow and hardship.

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

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