需 → 明夷
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷣
明夷
Darkening of the Light
Earth / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven → FireThe Creative → The Clinging
Yilin Verse
螟䖝為賊，害我五穀。簞食空虛，家無所食。
Crop-eating insects are the bandits; they harm my five grains. The food baskets stand empty; the family has nothing to eat.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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