中孚

Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning

中孚
Inner Truth
Wind / Lake
Difficulty at the Beginning
Water / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind WaterThe Gentle → The Deep
Lower TrigramLake ThunderThe Joyous → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

蝗齧我稻,驅不可去。實穗无有,但見空藁。

Locusts gnaw my rice; I drive them but they will not leave. No grain in the ears; only empty stalks remain.

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

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