Hexagram:Holding Together →Hexagram:Great Taming
I Ching Transformation
8
Holding Together
Bi
Water / Earth
→
26
Great Taming
Da Chu
Mountain / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater →Mountainabysmal to stillness
Lower TrigramEarth →Heavenyin-yang reversal
Yilin Verse
壅遏隄防，水不得行。火盛陽光，陰蜺伏藏，退還其鄉。
Dikes and dams block and bar; water cannot flow. The fire of blazing sunlight; yin and rainbow hide away, retreating to their source.
— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE
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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 8 (Holding Together) to hexagram 26 (Great Taming). In the I Ching, when a reading produces changing lines, the hexagram transforms into another hexagram, providing guidance for both the current situation and its eventual evolution.