益 → 大過
Hexagram 42: Increase → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
→
䷛
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → LakeThe Gentle → The Joyous
Lower TrigramThunder → WindThe Arousing → The Gentle
Yilin Verse
堅冰黃鳥，常哀悲愁。不見白粒，但覩藜蒿。數驚鷙鳥，飄為我憂。
Hard ice and a yellow bird, forever wailing in sorrow. No white grain to be seen, only goosefoot and wormwood. Startled again and again by hunting hawks, drifting, a source of endless worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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