比 → 剝
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷖
剝
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramEarth → MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
伯夷叔齊，貞廉之師。以德防患，憂禍不存。
Bo Yi and Shu Qi; paragons of integrity and purity. With virtue they guarded against calamity; worry and misfortune did not endure.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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