明夷 → 坤
Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷣
明夷
Darkening of the Light
Earth / Fire
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth → Earth
Lower TrigramFire → EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
太公避紂，七十隱處，卒逢聖文，為王室輔。
Taigong fled from Zhou Xin; for seventy years he dwelt in hiding. At last he met the sage King Wen, and became pillar of the royal house.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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