Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake FireThe Joyous → The Clinging
Lower TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

目不可合,憂來搔足。悚惕恐懼,去其邦域。

Eyes unable to close; worry comes, he scratches his feet. Trembling with dread and fear, he departs his homeland.

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

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