復 → 噬嗑
Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 21: Biting Through
䷗
復
Return
Earth / Thunder
→
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth → FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder → Thunder
Yilin Verse
逐禽出門，并失玉丸。往來井上，破甑缺盆。
Chasing game out the gate, losing the jade ball as well. Going and coming by the well; the steamer cracked, the basin chipped.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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