Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

龜鱉列市,河海饒有。長錢善價,商李悅喜。

Turtles and soft-shell fill the market; rivers and seas yield abundance. Long coins, fair prices; the merchants rejoice.

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

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