大過

Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding

Opposition
Fire / Lake
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous
Lower TrigramLake WindThe Joyous → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

焱風卒起,車馳袍褐。棄古追亡,失其和節,心憂惙惙。

A blazing wind rises suddenly; the carriage races, the cloak flies off. Abandoning the old to chase the lost; losing harmony and measure, the heart grieves bitterly.

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

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