小過

Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding

Oppression
Lake / Water
小過
Small Exceeding
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

鳳有十子,同巢共母。仁聖在位,懽以相保。興彼周魯。

The phoenix has ten children, sharing one nest and one mother. A sage of benevolence presides; joyfully they keep one another. Thus flourish the realms of Zhou and Lu.

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

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