否 → 屯
Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
䷋
否
Standstill
Heaven / Earth
→
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramHeaven → WaterThe Creative → The Deep
Lower TrigramEarth → ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
名成德就,項領不試;景公耋老,尼父逝去。
The merit stele's characters are overgrown with moss; the gold seal is dust-sealed in its box. The hero in old age watches autumn leaves — one by one, they drift with the wind.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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