屯 → 履
Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 10: Treading
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
六二 屯如邅如。乘馬班如。匪寇婚媾。女子貞不字。十年乃字。
Six in the second place means: Difficulties pile up. Horse and wagon part. He is not a robber; He wants to woo when the time comes. The maiden is chaste, She does not pledge herself. Ten years–then she pledges herself.
Line 4
六四 乘馬班如。求婚媾。往吉。无不利。
Six in the fourth place means: Horse and wagon part. Strive for union. To go brings good fortune. Everything acts to further.
Line 6
上六 乘馬班如。泣血漣如。
Six at the top means: Horse and wagon part. Bloody tears flow.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
百足俱行，相輔為強。三聖翼事，王室寵光。
A hundred feet all moving together, supporting each other in strength. Three sages assist the enterprise; the royal house is honored and radiant.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Clouds and thunder resolve into heaven above and lake below: initial difficulty finds its footing through proper conduct. A centipede walks with all its legs in concert, each supporting the others to create collective strength. Three sages assist the enterprise, and the royal house shines with honored glory. The 'three sages' likely refers to the Duke of Zhou, the Duke of Shao, and Taigong, who together stabilized the early Zhou dynasty after King Wu's death. From Difficulty at the Beginning to Treading, the transformation shows how coordinated effort and ritual propriety transform chaos into order. Heaven above lake establishes clear hierarchy; the centipede's hundred legs move as one because each knows its place.
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