震 → 需
Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 5: Waiting
䷲
震
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
→
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramThunder → WaterThe Arousing → The Deep
Lower TrigramThunder → HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative
Yilin Verse
刖根枯株，不生肌膚。病在於心，日以燋枯。
Roots severed, the dead stump grows no flesh or skin. The illness lies in the heart; day by day it withers and dries.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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