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

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

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

賊仁傷德,天怒不福。斬刈宗社,失其邦域。

Harming benevolence, wounding virtue; heaven is angry and withholds blessing. The ancestral altars are cut down; the domain is lost.

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

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