Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep
Lower TrigramEarth ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

文厄羑里,湯拘夏臺;仁聖不害,數困何憂。

King Wen was imprisoned at Youli; Tang was confined at Xia Tai. The humane and sage are not harmed -- though numbered among the trapped, what cause for worry?

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

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