Hexagram:Splitting Apart Hexagram:Great Preponderance

I-Ching Transformation

23
Splitting Apart
Bo
Mountain / Earth
28
Great Preponderance
Da Guo
Lake / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Line 2: 剝床以辨蔑貞凶

depriving
chuáng(the) bed
of (the use of)
biàn(the
miè(to) dismiss
zhēnpersistence
xiōng(is) unfortunate

Line 3: 剝之無咎

depriving
zhīitself
is not
jiùblame

Line 4: 剝床以膚凶

depriving
chuáng(the) bed
of (the use of)
(the
xiōngunfortunate

Line 5: 貫魚以宮人寵無不利

guàn(a) string(line)
of fish(es)
by (way
gōng(the) palace
rénoccupants'
chǒngsponsorship
without
doubt
worthwhile

Line 6: 碩果不食君子得輿小人剝廬

shuò(the) ripe
guǒfruit (realization
is not
shí(being) eaten
jūn(a
young one
gains
輿support
xiǎo(as
rénones
(are) deprived of
(their)(own) hovels

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Lakestillness to joyous
Lower TrigramEarth Windreceptive to gentle

Yilin Verse

百川朝海,流行不止。路雖遼遠,無不到者。

A hundred streams flow toward the sea, coursing without cease. Though the road be long and far, there is none that does not arrive.

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

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 23 (Splitting Apart) to hexagram 28 (Great Preponderance). 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.