Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 6: Conflict

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Conflict
Heaven / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater HeavenThe Deep → The Creative
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

土瘠瘦薄,培塿无柏,使我不樂。

The soil is lean and thin; the low mound bears no cypress. This makes me joyless.

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

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