比 → 大壯
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 34: Great Power
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷡
大壯
Great Power
Thunder / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramEarth → HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative
Yilin Verse
適戍失期，患生無聊。懼以發憂，發藏閉塞，邦國騷愁。
Missing the garrison deadline, trouble rises without recourse. Fear gives birth to worry; stores sealed and blocked -- the state is filled with anxious grief.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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