Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

乘輿八百,以明文德。踐土葵丘,齊晉受福。

Eight hundred chariots mounted, displaying civil virtue clearly. At Jiantu and Kuiqiu, Qi and Jin receive blessing.

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

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