噬嗑

Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 21: Biting Through

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain FireKeeping Still → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

溫仁君子,忠孝所在。入閨為儀,禍災不處。

A warm and benevolent gentleman, where loyalty and filial piety reside. Entering the inner chambers as a model; calamity and disaster do not dwell there.

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

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