Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 19: Approach

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Approach
Earth / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire LakeThe Clinging → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

鵠求魚食,過彼射邑。繒加我頭,繳挂羽翼。欲飛不能,為羿所得。

The swan-goose seeks fish to eat, passing over the archery town. A silk net covers its head; a corded arrow snags its wings. Wishing to fly, it cannot; captured by the archer Yi.

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

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