Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Youthful Folly
Mountain / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep

Yilin Verse

山崩谷絕,天福盡竭。涇渭失紀,玉厤盡已。

Mountains collapse, valleys are severed; heaven’s blessings are utterly exhausted. The Jing and Wei rivers lose their course; the jade calendar has reached its end.

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

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