隨 → 屯
Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Line 4
九四 隨有獲。貞凶。有孚在道以明。何咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Following creates success. Perseverance brings misfortune. To go one's way with sincerity brings clarity. How could there be blame in this?
Trigram Changes
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
Commentary
Thunder rests within the lake, and loyal counselors stand at left and right. With competent ministers flanking the throne, gold and jade fill the coffers. Wealth accumulates ceaselessly, rich as the great Ao Granary — the massive Qin-dynasty storehouse at Xingyang that became a strategic prize in the Chu-Han wars. The verse pictures ideal governance as a structure of mutual support: ruler follows good counsel, ministers follow a worthy lord. From Following to Difficulty at the Beginning, the pattern shifts from harmony to the perilous birth of new order — yet the wealth and loyalty described here are precisely the resources needed to weather the storm of Zhun's gathering clouds and thunder.
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