明夷

Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light

The Clinging Fire
Fire / Fire
明夷
Darkening of the Light
Earth / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire Fire

Yilin Verse

使伯東乘,恨不肯行,與叔爭訟,更相毀傷。

Sending the elder to ride east; resentful, he refuses to go. With the younger brother he quarrels and disputes; each inflicting further harm upon the other.

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

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