艮 → 需
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 5: Waiting
䷳
艮
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
→
䷄
需
Waiting
Water / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramMountain → WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain → HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Yilin Verse
根刖殘樹，花葉落去。卒逢火焱，隨風僵仆。
A felled, mutilated tree, its flowers and leaves fallen away. Suddenly meeting a blaze of fire, it topples stiff with the wind.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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