復 → 剝
Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
䷗
復
Return
Earth / Thunder
→
䷖
剝
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth → Earth
Lower TrigramThunder → MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
持刃操肉,對酒不食。夫亡從軍,少子入獄,抱膝獨宿。
Holding a blade over meat; facing wine, unable to eat. The husband gone to the army; the young son sent to prison — embracing her knees, she sleeps alone.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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