Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder → Hexagram 39: Obstruction

The Arousing Thunder
Thunder / Thunder
Obstruction
Water / Mountain
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramThunder WaterThe Arousing → The Deep
Lower TrigramThunder MountainThe Arousing → Keeping Still

Yilin Verse

蟻封戶穴,大雨將集。鵲起數鳴,牝雞嘆室。相薨雄父,未到在道。

Ants seal their nest-holes; a great rain is about to gather. The magpie stirs and cries out; the hen sighs within the house. The lord has perished; the elder father has not yet arrived, still on the road.

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

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