Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Progress
Fire / Earth
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

白鳥衘餌,鳴呼其子,施技張翅,來從其母。

The white bird carries food in its beak; it calls out to its young. Spreading their skill, stretching their wings; they come to follow their mother.

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

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