Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 60: Limitation

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Limitation
Water / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater Water
Lower TrigramThunder LakeThe Arousing → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

眾神集眾,相與議語。南國虐亂,百姓愁苦。興師征討,更立賢主。

The assembled spirits gather; they confer and discuss together. The southern state is cruel and disordered; the people grieve and suffer. Raising an army to campaign and punish; they set up a worthy lord.

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

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