Orpheus descends to Hades to retrieve Eurydice — not through force but through music. His lyre stills Cerberus, halts the torments of the damned, moves Persephone to tears. He is granted Eurydice on one condition: do not look back. He looks back. She vanishes. Hex 39 (Obstruction) is water on the mountain — the path blocked, the journey that requires you to turn inward before you can proceed. Hex 58 (The Joyous) is the lyre's power: doubled lake, the joy that moves even stone. Orpheus fails not because his music is insufficient but because his desire overcomes his discipline. The I-Ching's Hex 39 says 'the southwest furthers' — go toward the yielding, not the direct path. Orpheus went direct. The myth is a lesson in what the I-Ching calls 'untimely action.'