Difficulty at the Beginning · Shui Lei Zhun
Difficulty at the Beginning — birth pangs before any great undertaking.
The traditional reading
Hexagram 3 is the tangle of beginnings — the grass sprouting through frozen ground. The work is not yet organized and obstacles will feel like a tangle, but this is the cost of creation. Help arrives from those already established, so seek order, name your helpers, and endure the disarray with patience.
Structure of the hexagram
- Lower trigram: Thunder (Zhen) · Wood
- Upper trigram: Water (Kan) · Water
- House: Water (Kan) · Water
- Text in the original Chinese: 水雷屯