觀 → 屯
Hexagram 20: Contemplation → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
䷓
觀
Contemplation
Wind / Earth
→
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWind → WaterThe Gentle → The Deep
Lower TrigramEarth → ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
秋冬探巢，不得鵲雛；衘指北去，媿我少姬。
Searching the nest in autumn and winter, one finds no magpie fledgling; biting the finger, one departs northward -- shaming my young bride.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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