益 → 坤
Hexagram 42: Increase → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder → EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
城上有烏，自名破家。招呼鴆毒，為國患災。
Atop the city wall sits a crow, calling itself the destroyer of homes. It summons poison and venom, becoming a plague upon the state.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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