噬嗑

Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 21: Biting Through

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind FireThe Gentle → The Clinging
Lower TrigramWind ThunderThe Gentle → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

鬱怏不明,為陰所傷。眾霧集聚,共奪日光。

Black moths swarm the lamp — the lamp gutters. Night-vines wrap the pillar — the pillar tilts. Four walls without windows, no wind enters; a room sunk in darkness, the air impossible to clear.

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

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