Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

Treading
Heaven / Lake
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

循河樀舟,旁淮東游;漁父舉網,先得大鰌。

Following the river, poling the boat; along the Huai, roaming east. The fisherman casts his net; first he catches a great catfish.

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

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