Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive
Lower TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

三虫作蠱,剗迹无與。勝母盜泉,君子弗處。

Three insects breed poison; their traces must be cut away, left alone. The spring of Robber's Mother, the well of Theft—the noble man will not dwell there.

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

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