需 → 坎
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷜
坎
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → Water
Lower TrigramHeaven → WaterThe Creative → The Deep
Yilin Verse
鑿井求玉，非卞氏寶。名困身辱，勞無所得。
Fishing for a needle on the sea floor — wasting all one's time. Hands wounded, fingers split — not a single thing recovered.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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