Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 39: Obstruction

Progress
Fire / Earth
Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramEarth MountainThe Receptive → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

五經六紀,仁道所在,正月繁霜,獨不離咎。

The Five Classics and Six Bonds; where the way of benevolence resides. Yet thick frost falls in the first month; one alone cannot escape blame.

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

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