Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 47: Oppression

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Oppression
Lake / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

大樹之子,百條共母。當夏六月,枝葉盛茂。鸞鳳以庇,召伯避暑。穉穉卭甚,各得其所。

Children of the great tree; a hundred branches share one mother. In the height of summer, the sixth month; boughs and leaves flourish thick. Phoenix and simurgh find shelter; the Duke of Shao escapes the heat. The tender young ones struggle; yet each finds its place.

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

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