Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramMountain Mountain

Yilin Verse

登山履谷,與虎相觸。猬為功曹,班叔奔北,脫之喜國。

Climbing mountains and treading valleys, encountering a tiger face to face. The hedgehog serves as marshal; Ban Shu flees north, escaping to the land of joy.

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

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