需 → 大壯
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 34: Great Power
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷡
大壯
Great Power
Thunder / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramHeaven → Heaven
Yilin Verse
婚姻合配，同枕共牢。以降休嘉，子孫封侯。
Marriage well matched; sharing pillow and bridal feast. Bringing down fine auspiciousness; sons and grandsons enfeoffed as marquises.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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