Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 7: The Army

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep

Yilin Verse

狐狸雉兔,畏人逃去。分走竄匿,不如所處。

Foxes, pheasants, and hares, fearing men, flee away. Scattering to hide in all directions, worse off than where they were.

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

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