Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

Keeping Still Mountain
Mountain / Mountain
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WaterKeeping Still → The Deep
Lower TrigramMountain ThunderKeeping Still → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

蹇牛折角,不能載粟。災害不避,年歲无穀。

A lame ox with broken horn cannot carry the grain. Disaster unavoided; the year yields no harvest.

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

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