Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 11: Peace

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Peace
Earth / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder HeavenThe Arousing → The Creative

Yilin Verse

坐位失處,不能自居。賊破王邑,陰陽顛倒。

The seat is lost, its place displaced; one cannot settle in one’s own dwelling. Bandits shatter the royal city; yin and yang are overturned.

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

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