困 → 艮
Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
䷮
困
Oppression
Lake / Water
→
䷳
艮
Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramLake → MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWater → MountainThe Deep → Keeping Still
Yilin Verse
塗行破車，醜女无媒。莫適為耦，孤困獨居。
Traveling through mud, the cart breaks down; the homely woman has no matchmaker. None is found to make a pair; alone and stranded, she dwells in solitude.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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