Hexagram 33: Retreat → Hexagram 35: Progress

Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven FireThe Creative → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

積雪大寒,萬物不生,陰制庶士,時本冬貧。

Deep snow, bitter cold; the ten thousand things do not grow. Yin oppresses all the common folk; the season is truly winter's poverty.

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

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