需 → 頤
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷚
頤
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramHeaven → ThunderThe Creative → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
危坐至暮，請求不得。膏澤不降，政戾民忒。
Sitting upright until nightfall; petitions are not granted. Rich bounty does not descend; governance errs, the people go astray.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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