頤 → 屯
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
䷚
頤
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
→
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramMountain → WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramThunder → Thunder
Yilin Verse
三雁俱行,避暑就涼。適與矰遇,為繳所傷。
Three geese travel together, fleeing heat to seek the cool. They chance upon a stringed arrow; wounded by the tethered shaft.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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