Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

Progress
Fire / Earth
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing
Lower TrigramEarth WaterThe Receptive → The Deep

Yilin Verse

解緩不前,慆怠失便;二至之戎,家无禍凶,刻水象形,聞言不信。

Slack and hesitant, not advancing; idle and lax, the moment is lost. Warriors at the solstice; the house has no disaster. Carving water to make a shape; hearing words but not believing them.

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

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