Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 35: Progress

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging
Lower TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

執轡西朝,回還故處。麥秀傷心,叔父无憂。

Gripping the reins, facing west toward court; returning to the old place. The ripening wheat stirs heartache; yet the uncle has no worry.

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

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