Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 35: Progress

Development
Wind / Mountain
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind FireThe Gentle → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

驅羊南行,與禍相逢。狼驚我馬,虎盜我子,悲恨自咎。

Driving the flock south, meeting disaster on the road. The wolf startles my horse; the tiger steals my child. Grief and regret, self-reproach.

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

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