Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 22: Grace

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Grace
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

剠刖髡劓,人所賤棄。批捍之言,我心不快。

Branded, maimed, shorn, and mutilated; despised and cast off by all. Harsh and hostile words; my heart finds no ease.

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

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