Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth WaterThe Receptive → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

乘騮駕驪,東至于齊。遭遇仁友,送我以資,厚得利歸。

Riding a bay and driving a black, east to the land of Qi. Meeting a benevolent friend, he sends me off with provisions; richly rewarded, I return home.

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

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