Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 35: Progress

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Progress
Fire / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain EarthKeeping Still → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

避凶東走,反入禍口。制於牙爪,骨為灰土。

Fleeing danger by running east, he enters instead the mouth of disaster. Seized by fangs and claws; bones turned to ash and dust.

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

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