Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Return
Earth / Thunder
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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