Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 7: The Army

Duration
Thunder / Wind
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

牛騂亡子,鳴於大野,申後陰徵,罡歸其母。

The russet ox has lost its calf; it lows across the great wilderness. After the late afternoon, a hidden sign; the young one returns to its mother.

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

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