明夷 → 益
Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light → Hexagram 42: Increase
䷣
明夷
Darkening of the Light
Earth / Fire
→
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth → WindThe Receptive → The Gentle
Lower TrigramFire → ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
鵠思其雄，欲隨鳳東。順理羽翼，出次須日。中留北邑，復反其室。
The swallow carries mud, building a nest under the south eaves. Autumn wind arrives suddenly — the nest is finished, but the one it was built for has gone.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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