Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 1: The Creative

The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
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Changing Lines

This transformation has no changing lines. Both hexagrams are identical.

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven Heaven
Lower TrigramHeaven Heaven

Yilin Verse

道陟石阪,胡言連蹇。譯瘖且聾,莫使道通。請謁不行,求事無功。

The road climbs a stone slope; words falter and stumble. The interpreter is mute and deaf; none can make the way clear. Petitions go unheard; endeavors bear no fruit.

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

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