需 → 乾
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 1: The Creative
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷀
乾
The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → HeavenThe Deep → The Creative
Lower TrigramHeaven → Heaven
Yilin Verse
火滅復息，君明其德。仁人可遇，身受利福。
The fire dies and rests again; the lord makes bright his virtue. A benevolent man may be met; the body receives profit and blessing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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