小過

Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
小過
Small Exceeding
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

十里望烟,散渙四分。形體滅亡,可入深淵,終不見君。

Gazing at smoke from ten miles away; scattered and dispersed in four directions. Form and body extinguished; one may enter the deep abyss, never again to see the lord.

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

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