鼎 → 屯
Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
䷱
鼎
The Cauldron
Fire / Wind
→
䷂
屯
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramFire → WaterThe Clinging → The Deep
Lower TrigramWind → ThunderThe Gentle → The Arousing
Yilin Verse
蹙狂跛衽，辟坐不行。棄損平人，名字无中。
Frenzied, lame, robes in disarray; crouching aside, unable to walk. Cast off and diminished among common men; name and repute amount to nothing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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