Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Decrease
Mountain / Lake
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

晨夜驚駭,不知所止。皇母相佑,卒得安處。

Dawn and night, startled and terrified; not knowing where to stop. The August Mother offers her aid; at last finding a place of peace.

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

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