明夷

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

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

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramFire Fire

Yilin Verse

山林麓藪,非人所處。鳥獸无禮,使我心苦。

Mountain forests and foothill marshes; no place for human dwelling. Birds and beasts know no propriety; they make my heart bitter.

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

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