Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
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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