同人

Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

同人
Fellowship
Heaven / Fire
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven WaterThe Creative → The Deep
Lower TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

鴻魚逆流,至人潛渚;蓬蒿代柱,大屋顛倒。

Great fish leap against the current; the worthy man hides at the sandbar. Mugwort replaces the pillars; the great hall topples upside down.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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