Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 5: Waiting

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Waiting
Water / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater Water
Lower TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative

Yilin Verse

潔齊沐浴,思明君德。哀公怯弱,風氏復北。

Purified and bathed in ritual cleansing, contemplating a wise lord's virtue. Duke Ai was timid and weak; the Feng clan was driven north again.

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

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