比 → 頤
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷚
頤
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth → ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
滕蛇乘龍，年歲飢凶，民食草蓬。
The serpent coils around the dragon; the year brings famine and disaster. The people eat grass and weeds.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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