需 → 解
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 40: Deliverance
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷧
解
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramHeaven → WaterThe Creative → The Deep
Yilin Verse
一指食肉，口無所得。染其鼎鼐，舌饞於腹。
One finger reaches for meat; the mouth gets nothing. Dipping into the cauldron; the tongue craves what the belly cannot have.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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