Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

䡘䡘轠轠,歲莫偏蔽,寵名捐棄,君衰在位。

Rumbling and clattering; as the year wanes, all is obscured. Favor and fame are cast aside; the lord declines upon the throne.

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

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