Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
The Joyous Lake
Lake / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater LakeThe Deep → The Joyous
Lower TrigramMountain LakeKeeping Still → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

機餌設張,司暴子良。范叔不廉,凶害及身。

Bait and snare are set and spread; the tyrant's executioner Zi Liang. Fan Shu was not incorruptible; evil and harm came upon his own body.

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

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