Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Pushing Upward
Earth / Wind
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth Earth
Lower TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

鰥寡孤獨,命祿苦薄。入室无妻,武子悲哀。

Widowed, orphaned, alone; fate and fortune bitterly thin. He enters his chamber but finds no wife; Master Wu grieves in sorrow.

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

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