Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 19: Approach

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Approach
Earth / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake Lake

Yilin Verse

方船備水,旁河燃火,終身无禍。

Square boats guard against flood; fire kept along the riverbank. To the end of one's days, no calamity.

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

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