Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Lake
Lower TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

以緡易絲,抱布自媒。棄禮急情,卒罹悔憂。

Trading cord for silk, carrying cloth to propose in person. Casting aside propriety in haste of passion; in the end one suffers regret and sorrow.

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

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