Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 24: Return

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Return
Earth / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

兩目失明,日奪无光。脛足跛踦,不可以行,頓於丘傍。

Both eyes have lost their sight; the sun is robbed of light. Shins and feet lame and stumbling; he cannot walk, and collapses by the hillside.

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

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