Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Progress
Fire / Earth
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire Fire
Lower TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

東行食榆,困於枯株,失妻无家,志窮為憂。

Traveling east, eating elm bark; stranded at a withered stump. Wife lost, home gone; ambition exhausted, only sorrow remains.

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

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