Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 33: Retreat

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative
Lower TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

甘忍利害,還相克敵。商子酷刑,鞅喪厥身。

Enduring bitterness, weighing gain and harm, still they oppose one another. Shang Yang, the merchant's son, suffered cruel punishment; Yang lost his very life.

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

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