Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 41: Decrease

The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

翕翕䡘䡘,稍頹崩顛。減其令名,身不得全。

Tottering, shuddering; gradually crumbling and collapsing. His good name diminished; his person cannot be kept whole.

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

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