屯 → 困
Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 47: Oppression
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
→
䷮
困
Oppression
Lake / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramWater → LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramThunder → WaterThe Arousing → The Deep
Yilin Verse
跛躓未起，先利後市，不得鹿子。
Stumbling, not yet risen; first profit, then market. One does not get the fawn.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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