I Ching · Hexagram 23
Bō: Splitting Apart
A mountain resting on soft earth wears away from below. Bo is a time when things fall apart and pushing harder does not help.
- Keywords
- Decline, erosion, letting go, patience
- Upper trigram
- Mountain (Gen)
- Lower trigram
- Earth (Kun)
- Advice
- Hold still, protect what is essential, and let what is ending end.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.