Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

鬼泣哭枉,悲傷無後。甲子昧爽,殷人絕祀。

Ghosts weep and cry out in grief; sorrow at having no posterity. On the jiazi day at dawn's first light; the Yin people's sacrifices are cut off.

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

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