Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Grace
Mountain / Fire
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

依叔墻隅,志下勞苦。楚相辰食,韓子低頭。

Leaning in the corner of an uncle's wall; one's aspirations are low, toiling in hardship. The Chu minister eats at the wrong hour; Master Han bows his head.

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

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