噬嗑 → 明夷
Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
→
䷣
明夷
Darkening of the Light
Earth / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramFire → EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder → FireThe Arousing → The Clinging
Yilin Verse
鳥鳴捕鷇，長欲飛去；循枝上下，適與風遇。顛隕樹根，命不可救。
A bird cries, seizing its fledgling, longing to fly away; hopping along the branch, up and down -- it meets the wind by chance. Tumbling down to the tree's roots, its fate cannot be saved.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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