23
剝
Bō

Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

彖 · Tuan

Judgment

It is not favorable to have somewhere to go.
Judgment Commentary · 彖傳
Stripping Away is stripping away: the yielding changes the firm. It is not favorable to have somewhere to go because the small person is on the rise. Yielding below and still above: one sees the image in this. The Noble One attends to waxing and waning, fullness and emptiness: this is the movement of Heaven.
象 · Xiang

Image

The mountain rests on the earth: Stripping Away. Those above, by generously supporting those below, secure their dwellings.
六爻 · Six Lines

Lines

Line 06

Top Nine
A great fruit remains uneaten. The Noble One gains a carriage. The small person strips away a hut.
Corresponds to line 3
Commentary
The Noble One gains a carriage because the people carry him. The small person strips a hut: in the end it cannot be used.

Line 05

Six in the Fifth
A string of fish. Favor through the palace women. Nothing is unfavorable.
Central Corresponds to line 2
Commentary
Through favor to the palace women, in the end there is no fault.

Line 04

Six in the Fourth
Stripping the bed to the skin. Misfortune.
Corresponds to line 1
Commentary
Stripping the bed to the skin brings disaster very near.

Line 03

Six in the Third
Strip it away. No blame.
Corresponds to line 6
Commentary
Strip it away. No blame. It breaks with those above and below.

Line 02

Six in the Second
Stripping the bed at its frame. Perseverance is destroyed. Misfortune.
Central Corresponds to line 5
Commentary
Stripping the bed at its frame means there are still no allies.

Line 01

Initial Six
Stripping the bed at its legs. Perseverance is destroyed. Misfortune.
Corresponds to line 4
Commentary
Stripping the bed at its legs means destroying what is below.
卦象 · Guà Xiàng

Trigrams

Upper Trigram

Kên

Still

Element
Earth
Direction
Northeast
Family
Youngest Son
Season
Early Winter
Lower Trigram

K'un

Yielding

Element
Earth
Direction
Southwest
Family
Mother
Season
Late Summer
Palace
Qian Palace
Role: Fifth Generation
Shi line 5 · Ying line 2

Related hexagrams

Nuclear
Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Opposite
Hexagram 43: Breakthrough
Inverse
Hexagram 24: Return
Same palace
Hexagram 1: The Creative
Same palace
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Same palace
Hexagram 33: Retreat

Correspondences

Upper Trigram
艮 Kên
Still
Lower Trigram
坤 K'un
Yielding
Palace
Qian Palace
Palace 1
Element
金 Metal
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