乾 → 晉
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).
Line 1
初九 潛龍勿用。
Nine at the beginning means: Hidden dragon. Do not act.
Line 2
九二 見龍在田。利見大人。
Nine in the second place means: Dragon appearing in the field. It furthers one to see the great man.
Line 3
九三 君子終日乾乾。夕惕若厲。无咎。
Nine in the third place means: All day long the superior man is creatively active. At nightfall his mind is still beset with cares. Danger. No blame.
Line 5
九五 飛龍在天。利見大人。
Nine in the fifth place means: Flying dragon in the heavens. It furthers one to see the great man.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三癡俱走，迷路失道，惑不知歸，反入患口。
Three fools run together, lost and straying from the road. Confused, not knowing the way home, they blunder back into the mouth of danger.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Three fools set out together, lose the road, wander in confusion, unable to find their way home, and stumble straight into the mouth of disaster. From Creative to Progress, fire rises above the earth — brightness ascending, the image of the great person illuminating virtue. Yet the verse shows progress without illumination: the three travelers advance but in the wrong direction, their movement achieving only deeper entanglement. Jin's promise is that light rises naturally, as the sun emerges from the earth at dawn. These fools carry no light; their 'progress' is blind locomotion. The transformation warns that forward motion without clarity is not advancement but wandering into harm.
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