Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire EarthThe Clinging → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

皋田禾黍,搥壤麻阜。衣食我躬,室家饒有。

Marsh fields of grain and millet; pounding the earth, hemp on the hillside. Clothing and feeding my body; the household has plenty.

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

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