噬嗑

Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 22: Grace

噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Grace
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

智不別揚,張狂妄行;蹈淵仆顛,傷殺伯身。

Wisdom fails to discern or judge; reckless and wild in conduct. Treading the abyss, stumbling and falling -- wounding and killing the elder.

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

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