小畜 → 益
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 42: Increase
䷈
小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
→
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → Wind
Lower TrigramHeaven → ThunderThe Creative → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
禹作神鼎，伯益衘指；斧斤高閣，憧位獨坐；賣庸不售，苦困為禍。
Yu forged the divine cauldrons; Bo Yi pointed the way. Axes set high on the shelf; the attendant sits alone at his post. Selling his labor, none will buy; bitter hardship becomes disaster.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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