Hexagram 23
Hexagram 23 (Splitting Apart) - Mountain over Earth - Falling away, disintegration, banishing, partition, assimilation, acceptance of diversity.
Hexagram 23
23: Splitting Apart
剝 (bō)
23: Splitting Apart
Themes / Alternate Names / StructureFalling away, disintegration, banishing, partition, assimilation, acceptance of diversity.
Mountain over Earth.
Host: Line 6 (Yang)
Opposite Hexagram: 43 (Breakthrough)
Inverse Hexagram: 24 (Returning)
Mutual Hexagram: 2 (The Receptive)
Mountain Trigram
艮 gèn
Mountain Trigram
Correspondences / Themes#7
3rd son. Dog. Maturity. Hands. Early Spring. NW. Stone. Mountains.
Keeping Still, to limit, rest, meditation, enduring, stabilizing.
Earth Trigram
坤 kūn
Earth Trigram
Correspondences / Themes#8
Mother. Cow. Womb. Belly. Early Autumn. SW. Earth. Soil.
The Receptive, to give away, yielding, intuitive, devotional, nurturing and cultivating.
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