需 → 坤
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven → EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
溫山松柏，常茂不落。鸞凰以庇，得其歡樂。
Warm mountain pines and cypresses, ever flourishing, never falling. The luan and the phoenix shelter therein, finding their delight.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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