噬嗑 → 巽
Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
→
䷸
巽
The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramFire → WindThe Clinging → The Gentle
Lower TrigramThunder → WindThe Arousing → The Gentle
Yilin Verse
東家殺牛，污臭腥臊；神背西顧，命絕衰周。
The eastern neighbor slaughters an ox, foul and reeking; the spirit turns its back and gazes west -- fate withers in declining Zhou.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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