Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Lower TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

桃李花實,累累日息;長大成就,甘美可食。

Peach and plum bear flower and fruit, swelling day by day. Growing large and ripening; sweet and delicious, fit to eat.

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

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