Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

怒非怨妬,貪得腐鼠。而呼鵲鸇,自令失餌,致被困患。

Not from hatred or jealousy; coveting a rotten mouse. He calls the magpie and the hawk; and so loses his own bait, bringing trouble upon himself.

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

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