泰 → 同人
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 包荒。用馮河。不遐遺。朋亡。得尚于中行。
Nine in the second place means: Bearing with the uncultured in gentleness, Fording the river with resolution, Not neglecting what is distant, Not regarding one's companions: Thus one may manage to walk in the middle.
Line 4
六四 翩翩。不富以其鄰。不戒以孚。
Six in the fourth place means: He flutters down, not boasting of his wealth, Together with his neighbor, Guileless and sincere.
Line 5
六五 帝乙歸妹。以祉元吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The sovereign I Gives his daughter in marriage. This brings blessing And supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上六 城復于隍。勿用師。自邑告命。貞吝。
Six at the top means: The wall falls back into the moat. Use no army now. Make your commands known within your own town. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
多載重負，捐棄于野；予母誰子，但自勞苦。
Carrying firewood over the ridge, back bent like a bow. The wood is gone, the path ends — no companion to rest with.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace's bounty becomes an unbearable load. The original verse shows a figure carrying too much cargo, forced to abandon it by the roadside. The lament deepens: 'Whose child am I to my mother? I only exhaust myself in labor.' The burden exceeds what any single person can bear, yet no one shares the weight. From Peace to Fellowship, heaven and fire blaze together, promising solidarity — but the verse's bitterness lies in its absence. The transformation from Peace to Fellowship reveals fellowship as the missing remedy: a lone laborer collapses under cargo that a community could distribute. When heaven's fire illuminates shared purpose, the burden finds many shoulders.
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