噬嗑 → 否
Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 12: Standstill
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
→
䷋
否
Standstill
Heaven / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramFire → HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder → EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
朽根枯樹，葉落花去；卒逢火焱，相隨偃仆。
Rotten roots, withered tree -- leaves fall, blossoms gone. Suddenly meeting a raging fire, together they topple and collapse.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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