需 → 益
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 42: Increase
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → WindThe Deep → The Gentle
Lower TrigramHeaven → ThunderThe Creative → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
商紂牧野，顛敗所在。賦斂重數，黎元愁苦。
Shang Zhou at the Battle of Muye; overthrown and defeated there. Levies and taxes heaped without measure; the common people grieve and suffer.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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