Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

孤竹之墟,失婦无夫。傷於蒺藜,不見其妻。東郭棠姜,武子以亡。

The ruins of Guzhu; the wife lost, the husband gone. Wounded by thorns and brambles; he does not see his wife. Dongguo Tang Jiang; by Wuzi he was undone.

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

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