Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 6: Conflict

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Conflict
Heaven / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake HeavenThe Joyous → The Creative
Lower TrigramHeaven WaterThe Creative → The Deep

Yilin Verse

東行破車,步入危家。衡門垂倒,无以為主。賣袍續食,糟糠不飽。

Traveling east, the cart breaks down; on foot one enters a house of peril. The crossbeam gate hangs near collapse; there is no one to serve as master. Selling one's robe to continue eating; even chaff and husks do not suffice.

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

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