小過

Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding

The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
小過
Small Exceeding
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

羅網四張,鳥无所翔。征伐困極,飢窮不食。

Heaven's net, earth's snare — no crack or seam. Walls on left and right, hooks above and below. Grain exhausted, water cut off — people trapped in defense. Inside the iron city, bones pile into mounds.

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

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