坤 → 萃
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
→
䷬
萃
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth → LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous
Lower TrigramEarth → Earth
Yilin Verse
褰衣涉河，澗流浚多。賴遇舟子，濟脫無他。
Lifting robes to cross the river; the mountain stream flows swift and deep. Fortunately encountering a boatman; one is delivered and escapes without harm.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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