Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

伯蹇叔盲,莫與守床。失我衣裘,伐民除鄉。

The elder brother is lame, the younger is blind; neither can guard the bed. We lose our garments and furs; the people are harassed, the villages destroyed.

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

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