坤 → 復
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 24: Return
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
→
䷗
復
Return
Earth / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 1).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth → Earth
Lower TrigramEarth → ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
眾鬼所趨，反作大怪。九身無頭，魂驚魄去。不可以居。
Where the assembled ghosts converge, strange monstrosities arise. Nine bodies without heads; the soul is startled, the spirit flees. One cannot dwell there.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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