Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramHeaven FireThe Creative → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

北登鬼丘,駕龍東遊。王叔御后,文武何憂?

Ascending north to the ghost mound, riding dragons on an eastern journey. The prince drives for the queen; what worry have the civil and martial lords?

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

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