比 → 大畜
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷙
大畜
Great Taming
Mountain / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth → HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative
Yilin Verse
壅遏隄防，水不得行。火盛陽光，陰蜺伏藏，退還其鄉。
Dikes and dams block and bar; water cannot flow. The fire of blazing sunlight; yin and rainbow hide away, retreating to their source.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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