Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 27: Nourishment

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Nourishment
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

冬華不實,國多盜賊。疾病難醫,鬼哭其室。

Flowers bloom in winter but bear no fruit; the land is full of thieves and bandits. Illness is hard to cure; ghosts wail in the household.

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

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