Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water

Opposition
Fire / Lake
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep

Yilin Verse

耄老失明,聞善不從。自令顛沛,敗為咎殃。

Aged and blind, he has lost his sight; hearing what is good, he will not follow. He brings ruin upon himself; failure becomes his calamity.

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

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