泰 → 家人
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 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 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
過時不歸，道遠且迷；旅人心悲，使我徘徊。
Past the hour and not returning; the road is far and lost in maze. The traveler's heart is sad; it makes me wander to and fro.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace cannot reach the one who has gone too far. The proper time for return has passed, the road stretches into bewildering distance, and the traveler's heart fills with sorrow, pacing back and forth in indecision. This is the homesickness of one who has overextended their journey — not exile, but a departure that overstayed. The road is not blocked but confused; direction has been lost. From Peace to The Family, wind emerges from fire, and the gentleman's words carry substance while his conduct maintains constancy. The transformation reveals that the wanderer's remedy lies in rebuilding domestic order: the family is what one returns to, and its warmth is the flame that guides.
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