Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 1: The Creative

Grace
Mountain / Fire
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative

Yilin Verse

八口九頭,長舌破家;帝辛沉湎,商滅其墟。

Eight mouths, nine heads; long tongues destroy the house. Emperor Xin drowned in debauchery; Shang was reduced to ruins.

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

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