Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 35: Progress

The Well
Water / Wind
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

弧矢大張,道絕不通。小人寇賊,君子壅塞。

Bows and arrows drawn wide; the road is severed, passage cut. Petty men turn to banditry; the gentleman is hemmed in and blocked.

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

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