Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Lower TrigramFire MountainThe Clinging → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

山沒丘浮,陸為水魚,燕雀无廬。

Heaven tilts northwest, earth southeast. Stars fall into the water, water covers the mountains. Nests are built in treetops where fish swim the roads — heaven and earth inverted, no knowing when it will return.

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

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