Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Coming to Meet
Heaven / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder WindThe Arousing → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

東徙不時,觸患離憂。井泥無濡,思叔舊居。

Moving east at the wrong time, meeting calamity and parting from joy. The well turns to mud, yielding no moisture; one longs for uncle’s old home.

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

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