需 → 歸妹
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷵
歸妹
The Marrying Maiden
Thunder / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramHeaven → LakeThe Creative → The Joyous
Yilin Verse
一巢九子，同公共母。柔順利貞，出入不殆，福祿所在。
One nest, nine chicks; sharing a father and mother. Gentle and obedient, upright and true; going out and coming in without peril. Blessings and fortune reside therein.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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