I Ching · 3

La difficulté initiale

Trigrams

Upper trigram (context)

Lower trigram (subject)

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Opposite

50 · Le chaudron

Each line flipped (yang ↔ yin) — the complementary situation

Inverse

4 · La folie juvénile

Hexagram read upside down — the same situation seen from the other end

Nuclear

23 · L'éclatement

Lines 2-3-4 and 3-4-5 recombined — the heart of the situation

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