比 → 益
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 42: Increase
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷩
益
Increase
Wind / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → WindThe Deep → The Gentle
Lower TrigramEarth → ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
純服黃裳，載土以興。德義茂生，天下歸仁。
Wearing plain yellow robes, carrying earth to build. Virtue and righteousness flourish; all under heaven turns to benevolence.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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