Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 8: Holding Together

Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Holding Together
Water / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramThunder EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

旦往暮還,各與相存,身無凶患。

Setting out at dawn, returning at dusk; each sustaining the other. The body is free from misfortune and calamity.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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