Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

慈母望子,遙思不已。久客外野,我心悲苦。

A loving mother watches for her son, longing ceaselessly from afar. Long a stranger in distant wilds, my heart is full of bitter grief.

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

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