Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

Following
Lake / Thunder
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake WaterThe Joyous → The Deep
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

左輔右弼,金玉滿櫃;常盈不亡,富如敖倉。

Aided left and right; gold and jade fill the coffers. Always abundant, never depleted -- rich as the Ao Granary.

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

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