Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

佩玉纍蕊,無以繫之。孤悲獨處,愁哀相憂。

Jade pendants and clustered tassels, with nothing to bind them. Alone in grief and solitude; sorrow and anguish shared with none.

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

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