Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 12: Standstill

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

登几上輿,駕駟南遊。合從散橫,燕齊以強。

Ascending the bench, mounting the carriage; driving four horses on a southern journey. Uniting the Vertical Alliance, scattering the Horizontal; Yan and Qi grow strong.

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

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