屯 → 坤
Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
→
䷁
坤
The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder → EarthThe Arousing → The Receptive
Yilin Verse
採薪得麟,大命隕顛。豪雄爭名,天下四分。
Gathering firewood, one finds a qilin; the great mandate falls and overturns. Heroes contend for fame; the realm splits into four.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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