噬嗑 → 剝
Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
→
䷖
剝
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramFire → EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder → MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
凶憂災殃，日益章明；禍不可休，三郤夷傷。
Dire trouble and calamity, day by day growing clearer; disaster cannot be stayed -- the three Xi are cut down.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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