Hexagram 7: The Army → Hexagram 38: Opposition

The Army
Earth / Water
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

清人高子,久屯外野。道遙不歸,思我慈母。

The man of Qing, Gao Zi; long stationed in the outer wilds. The road is far, he does not return; he thinks of his kind mother.

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

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