大過

Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous
Lower TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

雨師娶婦,黃巖季子。成禮既婚,相呼南去。膏潤下土,年歲大有。

The Rain Master takes a bride, the youngest child of Yellow Cliff. Rites completed and wed, they call to each other going south. Rich moisture soaks the earth; the harvest year is bountiful.

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

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