Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Work on the Decayed
Mountain / Wind
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle

Yilin Verse

六鷁退飛,為衰敗祥。陳師合戰,左股夷傷。遂崩不起,霸功不成。

Six cormorants fly backward, an omen of decline and defeat. Marshaling troops and joining battle, the left thigh is wounded. He collapses and does not rise; the hegemon's work is left undone.

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

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