Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Conflict
Heaven / Water
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven FireThe Creative → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

秋冬探巢,不得鵲鶵。衘指北去,媿我少姬。

Searching nests in autumn and winter, no magpie chicks to find. Biting his finger, he goes north; I am ashamed before my young wife.

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

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