需 → 謙
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 15: Modesty
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷎
謙
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven → MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
喪寵溢尤，政傾家覆。我宗失國，秦滅周室。
Favor lost, excess blamed; governance toppled, household overturned. Our lineage loses its state; Qin annihilates the house of Zhou.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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