Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 41: Decrease

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

牧羊稻園,聞虎喧嚾。懼畏悚息,終無禍患。

Herding sheep in the rice garden; hearing a tiger's roar. Afraid and holding one's breath; in the end no calamity befalls.

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

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