Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 39: Obstruction

Opposition
Fire / Lake
Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

東入海口,循流北走。一高一下,五邑无主。十日六夜,死於水涘。

Entering the sea mouth to the east; following the current running north. Rising and falling, high and low; five towns without a lord. Ten days and six nights; death at the water's brink.

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

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