泰 → 益
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 42: Increase
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 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 3
九三 无平不陂。无往不復。艱貞无咎。勿恤其孚。于食有福。
Nine in the third place means: No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger Is without blame. Do not complain about this truth; Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.
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
鳳凰衘書，賜我玄珪，封為晉侯。
A phoenix bears a decree in its beak, bestowing a dark jade scepter upon us, enfeoffing us as Marquis of Jin.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace receives heavenly mandate through auspicious portent. A phoenix carries a written decree in its beak, bestowing a dark jade scepter (玄珪) and the title of Marquis of Jin. The phoenix bearing documents is an omen of dynastic legitimacy — only under sage governance does the phoenix appear. The dark jade scepter was the emblem of investiture granted by the Son of Heaven. According to tradition, Tang Shu Yu, founder of Jin, received his fief through an omen involving a leaf cut into the shape of a jade tablet. From Peace to Increase, wind and thunder collaborate — the gentleman corrects faults upon seeing good. The transformation shows heaven's blessing materialized as concrete political advancement.
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