Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Splitting Apart
Earth / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramMountain Mountain

Yilin Verse

老狼白驢,長尾大狐。前顛卻躓,進退遇祟。

A lame donkey carries a blind man; a blind horse leads a drunk. Every bridge they reach is broken; every ferry they find has no boat.

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

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