Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Oppression
Lake / Water
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing
Lower TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

東行賊家,鄭伯失辭。國无貞良,居受其殃。

Traveling east to the house of trouble, the Lord of Zheng loses his speech. The state has no one loyal and true; those who stay suffer the calamity.

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

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