Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 38: Opposition

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater FireThe Deep → The Clinging
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

東耕破犂,西失良妻。災害不避,家貧无資。

Plowing east, the plow breaks; in the west, a good wife is lost. Disaster and harm are not avoided; the family is poor and without means.

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

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