Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing
Lower TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep

Yilin Verse

低頭竊視,有所畏避。行伯不利,酒酸魚敗,眾若貪嗜。

Head bowed, stealing a glance; there is something he fears and avoids. The traveling lord finds no profit; the wine has soured, the fish has spoiled, yet the crowd still craves a taste.

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

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