Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 48: The Well

Opposition
Fire / Lake
The Well
Water / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramLake WindThe Joyous → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

井堙木刊,國多暴殘。秦王失戍,壞其太壇。

The well is choked, the trees are felled; the state is full of violence and ruin. The King of Qin lost his garrison; his great altar was destroyed.

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

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