需 → 屯
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → Water
Lower TrigramHeaven → ThunderThe Creative → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
西誅不服，恃強負力。倍道趨敵，師徒敗覆。
Campaigning west to punish the unsubmissive; relying on strength and force. Doubling the march to rush the enemy; the army is defeated and overturned.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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