需 → 剝
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷖
剝
Splitting Apart
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
孤竹之墟，老婦无夫。傷於蒺藜，不見少妻。東郭堂姜，武氏破亡。
The ruins of Guzhu; an old woman without a husband. Wounded by caltrops; the young wife unseen. Dongguo Tang Jiang; the Wu clan is destroyed.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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