否 → 噬嗑
Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 21: Biting Through
䷋
否
Standstill
Heaven / Earth
→
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramHeaven → FireThe Creative → The Clinging
Lower TrigramEarth → ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
伯蹇叔盲，足病難行；終日至暮，不離其鄉。
The elder brother is lame, the younger blind; feet ailing, travel is hard. From dawn to dusk they go; they cannot leave their village.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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