乾 → 睽
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
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
陽旱炎炎，傷害禾穀，穡人無食，耕夫嘆息。
Scorching drought burns fierce, harming the grain and crops. The farmer has no food; the plowman sighs in sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Scorching yang drought burns relentlessly, damaging grain and millet. The farmers have nothing to eat; the plowmen sigh in despair. From Creative to Opposition, fire above and lake below — two forces that naturally diverge. Kui's image captures mutual estrangement: fire rises, water sinks, and they refuse to cooperate. The verse translates this cosmic discord into agricultural catastrophe: the sun's yang fire, instead of nurturing crops, desiccates them. When heaven and earth fall out of accord, the harvest fails and the people starve. The plowman's sigh is the human sound of Opposition — effort and result moving in contrary directions, the more one labors the less one reaps.
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