蠱 → 剝
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
䷑
蠱
Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
→
䷖
剝
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramMountain → EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWind → MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
羊腸九縈，相推稍前；止須王孫，乃能上天。
The sheep-gut path winds through nine turns, each pushing slowly ahead; wait for the prince to arrive, and then one may ascend to heaven.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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