泰 → 井
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 48: The Well
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Line 1
初九 拔茅茹。以其彙。征吉。
Nine at the beginning means: When ribbon grass is pulled up, the sod comes with it. Each according to his kind. Undertakings bring good fortune.
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
狐貉載剝，徙溫厚蓐；寒棘為疾，有所不足。
Fox and badger are stripped of their pelts, moved to warm thick bedding. Winter's thorns bring affliction; there is something lacking.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace's warmth wears thin. Fox and badger pelts are stripped and shed, traded for thicker bedding to ward off cold. Yet the biting thorns bring illness, and there remains something insufficient. The fur-bearing animals lose their skins — a sacrifice of one kind of protection for another, yet the replacement is inadequate. Cold penetrates despite precautions. From Peace to The Well, water rises above wood, and the gentleman encourages the people to help one another. The transformation points to communal sustenance: the well's water is inexhaustible when properly maintained, whereas individual resources — like animal pelts — run out. What one person lacks, the community can supply.
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