噬嗑

Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 21: Biting Through

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire Fire
Lower TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

金城鐵郭,上下仝力,政平民歡,寇不敢賊。

A fortress of metal, walls of iron; above and below unite their strength. Governance is just, the people rejoice; bandits dare not plunder.

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

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