Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Conflict
Heaven / Water
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous
Lower TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative

Yilin Verse

被髮傾走,寇逐我後。亡失刀兵,身全不傷。

Hair unbound, fleeing headlong; bandits chase behind. Losing my weapons; body whole, unharmed.

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

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