屯 → 復
Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 24: Return
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
→
䷗
復
Return
Earth / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramThunder → Thunder
Yilin Verse
牧羊稻園，聞虎呻喧。懼畏惕息，終無禍患。
Herding sheep in the rice paddies, one hears the tiger’s growling roar. Fearful and holding one’s breath; yet in the end, no disaster befalls.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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