屯 → 坎
Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
→
䷜
坎
The Abysmal Water
Water / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → Water
Lower TrigramThunder → WaterThe Arousing → The Deep
Yilin Verse
朽根倒樹，花葉落去。卒逢火焱，隨風偃仆。
Rotten roots topple the tree; flowers and leaves fall away. Suddenly meeting a blazing fire; swept down by the wind, it lies prostrate.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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