Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative

Yilin Verse

堅冰黃鳥,終日悲號。不見白粒,但觀蓬蒿。數驚鷙鳥。孰為我憂?

Hard ice and a yellow bird, crying in sorrow all day long. No white grain to be seen, only brambles and weeds. Hawks startle again and again — who will grieve for me?

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

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