豫 → 蹇
Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm → Hexagram 39: Obstruction
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).
Line 3
六三 盱豫悔。遲有悔。
Six in the third place means: Enthusiasm that looks upward creates remorse. Hesitation brings remorse.
Line 4
九四 由豫。大有得。勿疑。朋盍簪。
Nine in the fourth place means: The source of enthusiasm. He achieves great things. Doubt not. You gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.
Line 5
六五 貞疾。恆不死。
Six in the fifth place means: Persistently ill, and still does not die.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
雒陽嫁女，善逐人走；三寡失夫，婦妬無子。
The bride of Luoyang, adept at driving men away; three times widowed, husbandless -- a jealous wife with no children.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder breaks from the earth, but the brides of Luoyang are known for driving husbands away. Three times widowed, the wife has lost her husband, consumed by jealousy and left childless. The verse presents a domestic catastrophe repeated in cycle: a woman whose possessiveness destroys each marriage in succession. Luoyang, the eastern capital, here serves as the setting for urban sophistication turned toxic. From Enthusiasm to Obstruction, the verse maps a path blocked at every turn. Water atop the mountain — Obstruction's image — means the way forward is treacherous and movement only worsens the situation. The gentleman turns inward to cultivate virtue. Three failed marriages embody obstruction internalized: the obstacle is not external but a pattern carried from one attempt to the next.
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