Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

Grace
Mountain / Fire
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

鬼守我門,呼伯入山;去其室家,舍其兆墓。

Ghosts guard my gate; calling the elder into the hills. He leaves his household behind, forsaking his ancestral tombs.

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

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