Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 38: Opposition

The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

折臂接手,不能進酒。祈祀閑曠,神怒不喜。

Arm broken, hand joined wrong; unable to present the wine. Prayers and sacrifices idle and empty; the spirits are angered and displeased.

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

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