比 → 師
Hexagram 8: Holding Together → Hexagram 7: The Army
䷇
比
Holding Together
Water / Earth
→
䷆
師
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramEarth → WaterThe Receptive → The Deep
Yilin Verse
千歲之墟，大國所屠。不見子都，城空無家。
A thousand-year-old ruin; a great state laid waste. Zidu is nowhere to be seen; the city is empty, no home remains.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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