Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 15: Modesty

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

異體殊俗,各有所屬。西鄰孤嫗,欲寄我室。主母罵詈,終不可得。

Different forms, foreign customs; each belongs to a separate kind. The old widow from the west quarter wished to lodge in my house. The matron cursed and scolded; in the end it could not be.

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

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