Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 1: The Creative

Opposition
Fire / Lake
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative
Lower TrigramLake HeavenThe Joyous → The Creative

Yilin Verse

被服文衣,遊觀酒池,上堂見觴。喜為吾兄,使我憂亡。

Clad in patterned robes; wandering to view the wine pool. Ascending the hall, he sees the goblet. Glad it is my brother; yet it makes me forget my sorrows.

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

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