Hexagram 23

Hexagram 23 (Splitting Apart) - Mountain over Earth - Falling away, disintegration, banishing, partition, assimilation, acceptance of diversity.

剝 (bō)

Themes / Alternate Names / Structure

Falling 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)

艮 gèn

Correspondences / Themes

#7
3rd son. Dog. Maturity. Hands. Early Spring. NW. Stone. Mountains.

Keeping Still, to limit, rest, meditation, enduring, stabilizing.

坤 kūn

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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