益 → 鼎
Hexagram 42: Increase → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
→
䷱
鼎
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → FireThe Gentle → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder → WindThe Arousing → The Gentle
Yilin Verse
仁德孔明，患禍不傷。期誓不至，室人衘恤。
Benevolent virtue, bright as Kongming — disaster and misfortune cause no harm. The promised one does not arrive; the household grieves in quiet sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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