否 → 同人
Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).
Line 1
初六 拔茅茹。以其彙。貞吉。亨。
Six at the beginning means: When ribbon grass is pulled up, the sod comes with it. Each according to his kind. Perseverance brings good fortune and success.
Line 3
六三 包羞。
Six in the third place means: They bear shame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
眾鬼凡聚，還生大怪，九身無頭；魂驚魄去，不可以居。
A crowd of ghosts gathers; strange apparitions arise. Nine bodies without heads; souls startled, spirits fled. The place is unfit to dwell.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and earth stand apart as ghosts swarm and gather, spawning monstrosities — nine bodies without heads. Souls scatter in terror; the place is unfit for habitation. From Standstill to Fellowship, Pi's blockage meets the promise of heaven and fire aligned. Yet the verse inverts Fellowship's meaning entirely: instead of kindred spirits gathering in harmony, malign spirits convene to breed horror. Tong Ren's image demands that like recognizes like and sorts itself properly, but here the sorting has gone grotesquely wrong — what congregates is not fellowship but nightmare. The headless bodies suggest community without direction, assembly without leadership. Fellowship perverted becomes a haunted gathering where no one can remain.
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