Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart山地剝 · Bō

• Upper trigram　Gèn, Mountain: stillness, steadiness and stopping at the right time.
• Lower trigram　Kūn, Earth: receptivity, support and going with the flow.

The Judgment

It does not further to go anywhere.

不利有攸往。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

The old is gradually falling away. Today suits cutting out unnecessary action, holding to the basics, and letting what should end end naturally.

Something to do today

• Cross off one thing that no longer needs doing.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.