Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Deliverance
Thunder / Water
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder Thunder
Lower TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

水深難遊,霜寒難涉。商伯失利,旅人稽留。

The water is deep, hard to swim; the frost is bitter, hard to ford. The traveling merchant loses his profit; the journeying man is detained and delayed.

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

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