Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 40: Deliverance

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Deliverance
Thunder / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater ThunderThe Deep → The Arousing
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

魚陸失所,鳧䵷困苦。澤无雚蒲,晉國以虛。

Fish stranded on land, out of their element; ducks and geese in distress. The marsh has no reeds or rushes; the state of Jin is emptied.

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

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