明夷

Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Lower TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

三塗五岳,陽城太室。神明所扶,獨无兵革。

The Three Passes and Five Sacred Peaks; Yangcheng and the Grand Chamber. What the spirits protect; alone it is spared from war and weapons.

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

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