Hexagram 39: Obstruction → Hexagram 7: The Army

Obstruction
Water / Mountain
The Army
Earth / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWater EarthThe Deep → The Receptive
Lower TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep

Yilin Verse

褰衣涉河,水深漬罷。賴幸舟子,濟脫无他。

Lifting his robes to ford the river, the water is deep and the crossing exhausting. Fortunate to find a boatman; he is ferried across without mishap.

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

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