屯 → 損
Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 41: Decrease
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
→
䷨
損
Decrease
Mountain / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder → LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous
Yilin Verse
踦牛失角，下山傷軸。失其利祿。
The one-horned ox loses its horn; going downhill, the axle breaks. One’s profit and rank are lost.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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