Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Treading
Heaven / Lake
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
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 TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

名成德就,項領不試;景公耋老,尼父逝去。

Fame established, virtue complete; the neck is never tested. Duke Jing grows old and infirm; Master Ni passes away.

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

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