Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Oppression
Lake / Water
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Lake
Lower TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative

Yilin Verse

作凶作患,北檄困貧。東與禍連,傷我老根。

Bringing calamity and disaster, northern dispatches spell poverty and hardship. In the east, misfortune spreads; it wounds our elder root.

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

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