小畜 → 乾
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 1: The Creative
䷈
小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
→
䷀
乾
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative
Lower TrigramHeaven → Heaven
Yilin Verse
東遇虎地，牛馬奔驚；道絕不通，南困無功。
Heading east, he meets a tiger ground; cattle and horses bolt in panic. The road is cut off, impassable; trapped in the south, achieving nothing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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