Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm

The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

東行求玉,反得弊石。名曰无直,字曰醜惡。眾所賤薄。

Traveling east to seek jade, instead obtaining only broken stones. Named 'without worth,' called 'ugly and vile'; despised and disdained by all.

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

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