益 → 乾
Hexagram 42: Increase → Hexagram 1: The Creative
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
→
䷀
乾
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder → HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative
Yilin Verse
下堂出門，東至九山。逢福值喜，得其安閑。
Descending the hall and passing through the gate, journeying east to the nine mountains. Meeting fortune and finding joy, one attains peace and leisure.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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