Hexagram 42: Increase → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Increase
Wind / Thunder
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind ThunderThe Gentle → The Arousing
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

龜厭江海,陸行不止。自令枯槁,失其都市,雖憂無咎。

The turtle wearies of rivers and seas, walking on land without ceasing. It brings upon itself withering and ruin, losing its city and market. Though there is worry, no blame attaches.

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

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