Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

Progress
Fire / Earth
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramEarth ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

魚蛇之怪,大人憂懼,梁君好城,失其安居。

Monstrous portent of fish and snake; the great man trembles in dread. The lord of Liang loved his walls; yet lost his peaceful dwelling.

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

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