比 → 解
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 40: Deliverance
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷧
解
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramEarth → WaterThe Receptive → The Deep
Yilin Verse
耕石山顛，費種家貧。無聊處作，苗髮不生。
Plowing stony ground on a mountaintop; wasting seed, the household grows poor. Laboring without purpose; the sprouts will not grow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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