震 → 坤
Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷲
震
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramThunder → EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder → EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
旦生夕死，名曰嬰鬼，不可得視。
Lightning splits the sky, thunder in a flash. Before rain touches ground, the clouds have already scattered east.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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