Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth WaterThe Receptive → The Deep
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

懸狟素飡,食非其任。失輿剝廬,休坐徙居,室家何憂。

Hanging idle, eating unearned food; feeding beyond one's station. Losing the cart, stripped of the roof; sitting idle, then moving house — what worry has the family?

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

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