泰 → 革
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 49: Revolution
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
履踐危難，脫執去患；入福喜門，見誨大君。
Treading through peril and hardship, one escapes danger and sheds calamity. Entering the gate of blessing and joy, one is received by the great lord.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace forged through trial. One treads through perilous difficulty, then sheds one's shackles and escapes disaster. Arriving at the gate of blessings and joy, one receives instruction from the great lord. The verse narrates a complete arc of reversal: danger endured, bonds cast off, and a transformed condition welcomed by legitimate authority. From Peace to Revolution, fire burns within the lake — the gentleman regulates the calendar to clarify the seasons. The transformation captures the essence of revolution as renewal: the old constraints are not merely escaped but transmuted, and the one who passes through the fire emerges authorized to enter the court of power.
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