噬嗑

Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 33: Retreat

噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

內執柔德,止訟以默;宗邑賴德,禍災不作。

Within, one holds to gentle virtue, stilling disputes through silence; the ancestral domain relies on this virtue -- calamity and disaster do not arise.

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

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