Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 53: Development

Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Development
Wind / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle
Lower TrigramMountain Mountain

Yilin Verse

已動死連。商子揚沙,石流狐狢。擾軍鼓振,吏士恐落。

Already stirred, death follows. The Shang prince raises a sandstorm; stones flow, foxes and badgers scatter. The army's drums pound and shake; officers and soldiers tremble in dread.

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

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