Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Waiting
Water / Heaven
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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