屯 → 謙
Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 15: Modesty
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
→
䷎
謙
Modesty
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder → MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
甘露醴泉,太平機關。仁德感應,歲樂民安。
Sweet dew, sweet spring; the pivot of great peace. Benevolent virtue stirs a response; the year brings joy, the people are at rest.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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