Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging
Lower TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

讒言亂國,覆是為非。伯奇乖難,恭子憂哀。

Slander disrupts the state, overturning right to make it wrong. Bo Qi met with calamity; the dutiful son grieves in sorrow.

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

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