比 → 噬嗑
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 21: Biting Through
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷔
噬嗑
Biting Through
Fire / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramEarth → ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
蒼梧鬱林，道易利通。元龜象齒，寶貝南金，為吾福功。
Cangwu and Yulin; the roads are easy and commerce flows. Great turtles and elephant tusks; cowries and southern gold -- they serve as our fortune's work.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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