Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramHeaven ThunderThe Creative → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

二室靈臺,文所止遊。雲物備故,長樂无憂。

The twin spirit towers where King Wen would pause and roam. Cloud signs and omens all accounted for; lasting joy without sorrow.

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

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