Hexagram 31: Influence → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

Influence
Lake / Mountain
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive
Lower TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

心惡來怪,衝衝何懼?顏伯子騫,尼父聖母。

The heart despises what comes strange; what fear in all this tumult? Yan Bo and Ziqian; Confucius and his sage mother.

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

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