Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

道路僻除,南至東遼。衛子善辭,使國無憂。

The roads are cleared and repaired, south to eastern Liao. The son of Wei speaks well; he keeps the state from worry.

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

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