比 → 損
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 41: Decrease
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷨
損
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth → LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous
Yilin Verse
二人異路，東趍西步。千里之行，不相知處。
Two men take different roads; one heads east, the other west. On a journey of a thousand li; neither knows the other is whereabouts.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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