Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

歲暮花落,陽入陰室。萬物伏匿,絕不可得。

At year's end flowers fall; the yang enters the chamber of yin. The ten thousand things lie hidden; utterly beyond reach.

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

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