泰 → 夬
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
作凶不善，相牽入井；溺陷辜罪，禍至憂有。
Committing evil and doing wrong, they pull each other into the well. Drowning and mired in guilt; disaster arrives and worry follows.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace perverted into mutual destruction. Those who commit evil and refuse goodness drag each other into the well — a fatal entanglement where wrongdoing pulls accomplices into shared ruin. Drowning and guilt accumulate, disaster arrives, and worry compounds. The well here is not the nourishing well of hexagram 48 but a death trap, a pit entered through collective malice. From Peace to Breakthrough, the lake rises above heaven, and the gentleman distributes blessings below while guarding against complacency. The transformation reveals the paradox: breaking through requires the courage to expose wickedness, but the breakthrough itself is dangerous — one must proclaim truth in the king's court without becoming another victim pulled into the well.
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