Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 10: Treading

The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative
Lower TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

四足無角,君子所服。南征述職,以惠我國。

Four-footed and hornless, what the noble man wears. Traveling south to report on duties, thereby benefiting our state.

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

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