Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

Opposition
Fire / Lake
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

邑姜叔子,天文在手。實沉參墟,封為晉侯。

Yi Jiang's worthy son; the patterns of heaven in his hand. Shi Chen and Shen Xu aligned; he was enfeoffed as Marquis of Jin.

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

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