Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 49: Revolution

Progress
Fire / Earth
Revolution
Lake / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous
Lower TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

邯鄲反言,父兄生患,竟涉憂恨,卒死不還。

Handan’s words are turned against them; father and elder brother are imperiled. In the end, engulfed in sorrow and resentment; they die and do not return.

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

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