明夷

Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light

Treading
Heaven / Lake
明夷
Darkening of the Light
Earth / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

築亂不時,使民恨憂;立祉為笑,君危臣騷。

Building recklessly, out of season; the people are filled with resentment and grief. Establishing a monument only to be mocked; the lord is endangered, the ministers agitated.

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

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