Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 55: Abundance

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Abundance
Thunder / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

黃鳥悲鳴,愁不見星。困於鷙鳥,鸇使我驚。

The yellow bird sings in sorrow, unable to see the stars. Harried by raptors; a hawk startles me.

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

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