噬嗑 → 益
Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 42: Increase
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
→
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramFire → WindThe Clinging → The Gentle
Lower TrigramThunder → Thunder
Yilin Verse
斧斤所砟，瘡痏不息；鍼石不施，下即空室。
What the axe has hacked, wounds and sores do not cease; if needle and stone are not applied, one descends to an empty chamber.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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