Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 10: Treading

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake HeavenThe Joyous → The Creative
Lower TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

飢蠱作害,偏多亂纏,緒不可得。

Hunger and pestilence bring harm; confusion overwhelms on every side. The tangled threads cannot be found.

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

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