Hexagram:The Receptive Hexagram:Great Taming

I Ching Transformation

2
The Receptive
Kun
Earth / Earth
26
Great Taming
Da Chu
Mountain / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth Mountainreceptive to stillness
Lower TrigramEarth Heavenyin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

典冊法書,藏在蘭臺。雖遭亂潰,獨不遇災。

Canons, records, and legal texts, stored in the Orchid Terrace. Though chaos and ruin beset the land, alone they do not meet with disaster.

— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 2 (The Receptive) to hexagram 26 (Great Taming). In the I Ching, when a reading produces changing lines, the hexagram transforms into another hexagram, providing guidance for both the current situation and its eventual evolution.