Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous
Lower TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative

Yilin Verse

初病終凶,季為死喪,不見光明。

First illness, then in the end, doom; by the close, death and mourning. No light to be seen.

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

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