Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous
Lower TrigramLake HeavenThe Joyous → The Creative

Yilin Verse

蓄積有餘,糞土不居。美哉輪奐,出有高車。

Stores accumulated in surplus; dung and filth do not linger. How fine, how splendid the halls; going out, there is a grand carriage.

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

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