Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 42: Increase

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Increase
Wind / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

揚花不時,冬實生危,憂多橫賊。生不能服,崑崙之玉,所求必得。

Blossoms scatter out of season; winter fruit faces peril, beset by many troubles and thieves. What is born cannot be tamed; yet the jade of Kunlun — what is sought shall surely be found.

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

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