明夷

Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle
Lower TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

出入蹈踐,動順天時。俯仰有節,禍災不來。

Going out and coming in with care; moving in accord with heaven's seasons. Bowing and rising with proper measure; calamity and disaster do not come.

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

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