Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 6: Conflict

Pushing Upward
Earth / Wind
Conflict
Heaven / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

衰老困極,无齒不食。痔病痟瘵,就陰為室。

Wasted and aged, reduced to the uttermost; without teeth, unable to eat. Afflicted by sores and wasting illness, he retreats to the darkness for his chamber.

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

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