Hexagram 31: Influence → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Influence
Lake / Mountain
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Lake
Lower TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative

Yilin Verse

聾瞢闇瞢,跛倚不行,坐尸爭骸,身被火災,因其多憂。

Deaf and dim, blind and dark; lame, leaning, unable to walk. Sitting rigid, contesting over bones; the body suffers fire's calamity. Thus are his many sorrows.

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

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