Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 35: Progress

Waiting
Water / Heaven
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

咸陽辰巳,長安戌亥。丘陵生止,非魚鰌市。不可辭阻,終無悔咎。

Xianyang at the chen-si hours; Chang’an at the xu-hai hours. Hills and mounds produce and stand; not a market for fish and eels. One need not refuse or resist; in the end, no regret or fault.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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