above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATERbelow CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER The name of the hexagram, Chun, really connotes a blade of grass pushing against an obstacle

above K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTHbelow K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH This hexagram is made up of broken lines only. The broken lines represents the dark, yielding,

above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVENbelow CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN The first hexagram is made up of six unbroken lines. These unbroken lines stand for the