Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm

Progress
Fire / Earth
Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing
Lower TrigramEarth Earth

Yilin Verse

桑華腐蠹,衣弊如絡。女功不成,絲布為玉。

Mulberry blossoms rot with borers; garments tattered like netting. Women’s work left unfinished; silk cloth passes for jade.

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

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