小過

Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding

Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
小過
Small Exceeding
Mountain / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramThunder Thunder

Yilin Verse

痴狂妄作,心誑善惑。迷行失路,不知南北。

Raving madly without reason; the mind is deluded and easily confused. Wandering astray, losing the road; not knowing south from north.

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

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