乾 → 坤
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷀
乾
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramHeaven → EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven → EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
招殃來螫，害我邦國；病在手足，不得安息。
Inviting calamity, drawing stings; harming our domain. The affliction is in the limbs; one finds no rest.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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