Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward

Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Pushing Upward
Earth / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater WindThe Deep → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

賊仁傷德,天怒不福。斬刈宗社,失其本域。

Harming benevolence, wounding virtue — heaven rages and withholds its blessing. The ancestral shrine is cut down and razed; the domain itself is lost.

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

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