需 → 師
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 7: The Army
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷆
師
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramHeaven → WaterThe Creative → The Deep
Yilin Verse
鳧遊江海，役行千里。以為死亡，復見空素。長主凶憂。
The wild duck roams the rivers and seas; sent on a journey of a thousand li. Thought to be dead; but one sees again the empty message. For the lord, a long sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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