明夷

Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light

Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
明夷
Darkening of the Light
Earth / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

不虞之患,禍至無門。奄忽暴卒,痛傷我心。

Disaster not foreseen; calamity arrives through no gate. Sudden and violent death; wounding our hearts with grief.

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

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