Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 50: The Cauldron

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

泥面亂頭,忍恥少羞。日以削消,凶其自搯。

Mud on the face, hair in disarray; enduring shame with little modesty. Day by day pared away; the misfortune is of one's own making.

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

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