坎 → 剝
Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
䷜
坎
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
→
䷖
剝
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater → MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
延陵適魯，觀樂太史。車轔白顛，知秦興起，卒兼其國，一統為主。
A star falls in the west; light rises in the east. The old dynasty nears its end — a new lord is destined to rise.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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