Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

六虵奔走,俱入茂草。驚於長路,畏懼啄口。

Six snakes dash and flee, all plunging into thick grass. Startled on the long road, fearful of the pecking beak.

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

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