需 → 比
Hexagram 5: Waiting → Hexagram 8: Holding Together
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
→
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → Water
Lower TrigramHeaven → EarthThe Creative → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
太乙駕騮，從天上來。徵君叔季，封為魯侯。無有凶憂。
The Great Unity rides a bay horse, coming down from heaven. He summons my younger uncles and enfeoffs them as Marquis of Lu. Without ill omen or sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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