噬嗑

Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

明滅光息,不能復食;精魄既喪,以夜為室。

Light dims, radiance dies -- one can no longer eat. Vital spirit already lost, night becomes one's dwelling.

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

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