Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 6: Conflict

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Conflict
Heaven / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative
Lower TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep

Yilin Verse

泥津汙辱,棄捐溝瀆。所共笑哭,終不顯錄。

Muddied and soiled in filth; cast away in ditches and drains. An object of shared ridicule and tears; in the end, never distinguished or recorded.

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

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