Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

陽明失時,陰凝為憂。主君哀泣,喪其元侯。

Yang's brightness loses its season; yin congeals into sorrow. The sovereign lord weeps in grief; he has lost his chief lord.

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

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