艮 → 坤
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷳
艮
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramMountain → EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Lower TrigramMountain → EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
穿匏挹水，篝銕燃火。勞疲力竭，飢渴為禍。
Scooping water with a hollowed gourd, kindling fire in an iron basket. Toil spent, strength exhausted; hunger and thirst become the calamity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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