Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 49: Revolution

Oppression
Lake / Water
Revolution
Lake / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Lake
Lower TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

申酉稷射,陰慝萌作。柯葭載牧,泥塗不白。

In the shen and you months, when autumn grains are shot, dark mischief stirs and rises. Stalks and reeds bear their pasture, but the mire will not whiten.

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

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