小畜 → 坤
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷈
小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → EarthThe Gentle → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven → EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
子鉏執麟，《春秋》作元；陰將以終，尼父悲心。
Zichu captures the qilin; the Spring and Autumn Annals begins. Yin is about to end; Master Ni grieves in his heart.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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