Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 1: The Creative

The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative
Lower TrigramWind HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative

Yilin Verse

頃筐卷耳,憂不得傷。心思故人,悲慕失母。

Tilting the basket, gathering earwort; sorrow does not become a wound. The heart thinks of old friends; in grief and longing, one mourns a lost mother.

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

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