Hexagram 42: Increase → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Increase
Wind / Thunder
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind ThunderThe Gentle → The Arousing
Lower TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

好戰亡國,師不以律。稱上殞墜,齊侯狠戾,其被災祟。

Loving war and losing the state, the army cast off all discipline. The ruler falls from on high; the Marquis of Qi, cruel and savage, is struck by calamity and curse.

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

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