頤 → 需
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 5: Waiting
䷚
頤
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
→
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramMountain → WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramThunder → HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative
Yilin Verse
履危無患，跳脫獨全。不利出門，傷我左踝。疾病不食，鬼哭其室。
Treading danger without calamity; leaping free, alone preserved. Ill-favored to go out the door; my left ankle is injured. Illness keeps one from eating; ghosts weep within the chamber.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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