泰 → 訟
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 6: Conflict
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).
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 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 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.
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
踝踵之傷，左指病癰；失旅後時，利走不來。
Injury to ankle and heel; the left finger swells with abscess. Missing the caravan, arriving too late; profit flees and will not come.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace's harmony, fractures into bodily injury. Ankles and heels are wounded, the left hand festers with an abscess. Having lost the army's momentum and missed the proper season, profit flees and cannot be reclaimed. The verse catalogs physical breakdown as a metaphor for strategic failure: a body too damaged to march mirrors a campaign launched at the wrong moment. Every wound compounds the delay. From Peace to Conflict, heaven and water diverge — forces that should align instead work at cross purposes. The transformation captures how harmonious conditions, once squandered through poor timing, devolve into discord where every initiative meets opposition.
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