噬嗑 → 坤
Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramFire → EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder → EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
甲戊己庚，隨時運行。不失常節，達性任情；各樂其類。
Jia, wu, ji, geng -- each follows the season's course. Never losing their proper measure, they fulfill their nature and yield to feeling; all delight in their own kind.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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