履 → 同人
Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Line 2
九二 履道坦坦。幽人貞吉。
Nine in the second place means: Treading a smooth, level course. The perseverance of a dark man Brings good fortune.
Line 3
六三 眇能視。跛能履。履虎尾。咥人凶。武人為于大君。
Six in the third place means: A one-eyed man is able to see, A lame man is able to tread. He treads on the tail of the tiger. The tiger bites the man. Misfortune. Thus does a warrior act on behalf of his great prince.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
嬰孩求乳，母歸其子；黃麑悅喜，自樂甘餌。
The infant seeks its mother is milk; the mother returns to her child. The yellow fawn leaps with joy; delighting in its sweet food.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven above the lake softens into a scene of natural belonging. An infant cries for milk and the mother returns to her child; a young fawn delights in sweet fodder, content with its nourishment. Every creature finds its proper place — the baby with the mother, the deer with the grass. There is no striving, no misstep; needs are met through the simplest bond. From Treading to Fellowship, fire rises into heaven and illuminates all alike. The careful distinctions of Treading dissolve into the warmth of recognition: when conduct is natural rather than calculated, fellowship arises as instinctively as a child reaching for its mother.
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