比 → 坎
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷜
坎
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → Water
Lower TrigramEarth → WaterThe Receptive → The Deep
Yilin Verse
恆山浦壽，高邑所在。陰氣下淋，洪水不處，牢人開戶。
Mount Heng and Pushou; where the high city stands. Yin qi drips below; floodwaters do not stay -- the prisoner's door is opened.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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