Hexagram 8
Hexagram 8 (Holding Together) - Water over Earth - Alliance, grouping, union, contribution to the group.
Hexagram 8
8: Holding Together
比 (bǐ)
8: Holding Together
Themes / Alternate Names / StructureHolding together, alliance, grouping, union, contribution to the group.
Water over Earth.
Host: Line 5 (Yang)
Opposite Hexagram: 14 (Great Possession)
Inverse Hexagram: 7 (The Army)
Mutual Hexagram: 23 (Splitting Apart)
Water Trigram
坎 kǎn
Water Trigram
Correspondences / Themes#6
2nd son. Pig. Fetal. Ears. Winter. North. Water. Rivers. The Sea.
The Abysmal, to risk, facing danger, difficult, emotional, the occult, the depths.
Earth Trigram
坤 kūn
Earth Trigram
Correspondences / Themes#8
Mother. Cow. Womb. Belly. Early Autumn. SW. Earth. Soil.
The Receptive, to give away, yielding, intuitive, devotional, nurturing and cultivating.
The principal line of the hexagram on which the central theme for divination focuses. In most (but not all) cases, the host resides in the second or fifth place (central places within their trigrams), of which the fifth place is most common. Some hexagrams have more than one hosts. 
adobe mission uses Master Alfred Huang's The Complete I Ching as its reference guide for hexagram hosts. The hexagram icons below with line detail show the Host line in BOLD outline.
When a hexagram is written in reverse order (Line 6 becomes Line 1, Line 5 becomes Line 2, etc), an Inverse Hexagram is created.
A hexagram's opposite is the hexagram where each Yin line is Yang and vice versa. For example, hexagram 1 (The Creative, all Yang lines) and hexagram 2 (The Receptive, all Yin lines) are opposites.
A mutual hexagram is formed by the "mutual" trigrams formed by Lines 2/3/4 and Lines 3/4/5.
Line Change Detail
This image shows what “change hexagram” results when each line changes from yin to yang (or vice versa).
The 6 flip boxes below show the changing hexagram pair for each line in larger detail.
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Line 2
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Line 3
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Line 4
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Line 5
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Line 6
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