小畜

Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
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 TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

孔鯉伯魚,北至高奴;木馬金車,駕遊大都;王母送我,來牝字駒。

Kong Li, courtesy name Boyu, travels north to Gaonu. With wooden horse and golden carriage, he tours the great capital. The Queen Mother sends me off; the mare arrives with her colt.

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

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