Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Enthusiasm
Thunder / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

川淵難遊,水為我憂。多言少實,命鹿為駒。建德開基,君子逢時。利以仲疑。

Rivers and depths are hard to swim; water brings me worry. Much talk and little substance, calling a deer a colt. Establishing virtue and laying foundations; the gentleman meets his time. Profitable through the second divination.

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

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