Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 15: Modesty

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

田鼠野雛,意常欲去。拘制籠檻,不得搖動。

The field mouse and the wild chick, their hearts always yearning to flee. Confined in cage and pen, they cannot stir or move.

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

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