Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing
Lower TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

月趍日步,周遍次舍。歷險致遠,无有難處。

Moon by month and sun by day, circling through each lodge in turn. Traversing danger to reach the far; nowhere too difficult to pass.

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

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