Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

Pushing Upward
Earth / Wind
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth Earth
Lower TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

百里南行,雖微得明。去虞適秦,為穆國卿。

A hundred li journeying south; though humble, one gains clarity. Leaving Yu and going to Qin, he became minister to Duke Mu.

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

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