Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 33: Retreat

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

華燈百枝,消暗衰微。精光訖盡,奄如灰縻。

A splendid lamp of a hundred branches; its darkness fades and weakens. Its brilliant light is spent and gone; suddenly it becomes like ash and dust.

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

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