Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 32: Duration

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Duration
Thunder / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake WindThe Joyous → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

孟巳乙丑,哀呼尼父。明德訖終,亂害滋起。

In the mengsi year, the yichou month; mournful cries for the sage Confucius. Bright virtue has reached its end; disorder and harm now arise.

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

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