需 → 復
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 24: Return
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷗
復
Return
Earth / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven → ThunderThe Creative → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
凶禍災殃，日益明彰。福不可釐，三郤夷傷。
Calamity and disaster; daily growing more manifest. Blessings cannot be had; the three Xi are wounded and brought low.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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