歸妹 → 坤
Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷵
歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramThunder → EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake → EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
喘牛傷暑，弗能成畝。草萊不闢，年歲无有。
The panting ox, stricken by heat, cannot finish the furrow. Weeds and brambles go uncleared; the year yields nothing at all.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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