Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 39: Obstruction

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

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater Water
Lower TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

為季求婦,家在東海。水長無船,不見所歡。

Seeking a wife for the youngest brother; her family lives by the eastern sea. The water stretches with no boat; the beloved is never seen.

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

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