Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous
Lower TrigramLake HeavenThe Joyous → The Creative

Yilin Verse

折若閉目,不見稚叔。三足孤烏,遠去家室。

Snapping shut, closing the eyes; the young and the old are not seen. The three-legged solitary crow; far from home it goes.

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

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