Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

Oppression
Lake / Water
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Lake
Lower TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

被髮獸心,難與比鄰。來如飄風,去似絕絃,為狼所殘。

Hair unbound and beast of heart, hard to keep as a neighbor. Coming like a whirlwind, departing like a severed string; devoured by the wolf.

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

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