謙 → 屯
Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
Line 1
初六 謙謙君子。用涉大川。吉。
Six at the beginning means: A superior man modest about his modesty May cross the great water. Good fortune.
Line 3
九三 勞謙君子。有終吉。
Nine in the third place means: A superior man of modesty and merit Carries things to conclusion. Good fortune.
Line 5
六五 不富以其鄰。利用侵伐。无不利。
Six in the fifth place means: No boasting of wealth before one's neighbor. It is favorable to attack with force. Nothing that would not further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
東璧餘光，數暗不明；主母嫉妬，亂我事業。
The eastern wall's fading light; the count grows dark and dim. The principal wife is jealous and envious; she disorders my affairs.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth holds a mountain within, but now the Eastern Wall star's fading light leaves the field dim and unclear. A jealous mistress disrupts all endeavors, her envy darkening the household like residual starlight too faint to illuminate. The Eastern Wall (東璧) is one of the lunar mansions associated with scholarship and the treasury, yet here its brightness has waned to a flicker. From Modesty to Difficulty at the Beginning, clouds gather over thunder — the chaos of a new venture beset by internal sabotage. The jealous figure embodies the obstruction that makes all beginnings treacherous. Modesty's hidden mountain, rather than anchoring stability, is undermined from within by spite that turns potential resources into instruments of disorder.
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