大過 → 需
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 5: Waiting
䷛
大過
Great Exceeding
Lake / Wind
→
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramLake → WaterThe Joyous → The Deep
Lower TrigramWind → HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative
Yilin Verse
大樹之子，百條共母。當夏六月，枝葉盛茂。鸞鳥以庇，召伯避暑。
The great tree’s offspring; a hundred boughs share one mother. In midsummer’s sixth month; branches and leaves flourish thick. The luan bird shelters beneath; Lord Shao escapes the heat.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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