Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
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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