Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

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

Yilin Verse

凶門生患,牢戶多冤。沙池禿齒,使叔困貧。

The gate of ill fortune breeds calamity; the prison holds many wronged. Sand pools and broken teeth; it leaves Uncle in destitution.

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

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