咸 → 屯
Hexagram 31: Influence → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
䷞
咸
Influence
Lake / Mountain
→
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramLake → WaterThe Joyous → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain → ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
鳥鳴呼子，哺以酒脯，高樓水處，來歸其母。
A bird calls out for its young; it feeds them wine and dried meat. From the high tower above the waters; they come home to their mother.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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