需 → 睽
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 38: Opposition
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷥
睽
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramHeaven → LakeThe Creative → The Joyous
Yilin Verse
齋具贖狸,不聽我辭。係於虎鬚,牽不得來。
Preparing the offering to ransom the civet cat; it does not heed my words. Tied to the tiger’s whiskers; pulling, it will not come.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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