Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder FireThe Arousing → The Clinging

Yilin Verse

雙鳧俱飛,欲歸稻食。經涉萑澤,為矢所射,傷我胸臆。

A pair of wild ducks fly together, wanting to return and feed on rice. Passing through the reed marshes, they are struck by arrows that pierce breast and wing.

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

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