遯 → 屯
Hexagram 33: Retreat → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
䷠
遯
Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
→
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramHeaven → WaterThe Creative → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain → ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
穴有孤烏,坎生蝦蟆,象出萬里,不可得捕。
In the cave, a solitary crow; in the pit, a toad is born. The elephant roams ten thousand li; it cannot be caught.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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