Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough

Limitation
Water / Lake
Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

一雌二雄,子不知公。亂我族類,使吾心憤。

One hen, two roosters; the chicks do not know their father. Disrupting my lineage, filling my heart with fury.

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

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