Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Holding Together
Water / Earth
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

城上有烏,自號破家。呼喚鴆毒,為國患災。

A crow upon the city wall, crying out its own ruin. It summons poisonous zhenniao; bringing plague and disaster to the state.

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

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