漸 → 比
Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 8: Holding Together
䷴
漸
Development
Wind / Mountain
→
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → WaterThe Gentle → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain → EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
文山鴻豹，肥腯多脂。王孫獲願，載福巍巍。
On Wen Mountain, great swans and leopards, fat and rich with flesh. The prince obtains his desire; blessings heaped high as a mountain.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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