明夷 → 艮
Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
䷣
明夷
Darkening of the Light
Earth / Fire
→
䷳
艮
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramEarth → MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramFire → MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
鴟鴞取婦，深目窈身。折腰不媚，與伯相背。
The owl takes a wife; deep-eyed and slender-waisted. She will not bow or flatter; she turns her back on her lord.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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