Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Progress
Fire / Earth
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous
Lower TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative

Yilin Verse

摧角不傷,雖折復長,秉德无騫,老賴榮光。

The horn is broken but not harmed; though snapped, it grows again. Holding fast to virtue without faltering; in old age, one still enjoys glory.

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

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