中孚

Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 2: The Receptive

中孚
Inner Truth
Wind / Lake
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

符左契右,梁叔有若。相與合齒,乾坤利貞。乳生六子,長大成就,拋吾如母。

Left tally meets right tally; Liang and Shu find each other. Together their teeth align; qian and kun are steadfast. Nursing six children to maturity; they cast me aside like a mother.

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

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