否 → 家人
Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).
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.
Line 4
九四 有命无咎。疇離祉。
Nine in the fourth place means: He who acts at the command of the highest Remains without blame. Those of like mind partake of the blessing.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
俱為天民,雲過吾西;風伯雨師,與我無恩。
All are common folk beneath heaven; clouds pass to our west. The Wind Earl and the Rain Master show us no kindness.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and earth refuse to communicate: all are equally the people of heaven, yet the clouds pass west of us. The Wind Earl and Rain Master offer us no grace. From Standstill to The Family, Pi's stagnation should transform into wind emerging from fire — warmth radiating outward as domestic order. Yet the verse laments exclusion: though everyone is heaven's subject, the rain and wind deities ignore this particular household. The celestial weather-gods, who should distribute blessings impartially, simply pass by. The Family hexagram demands that 'words have substance and actions have constancy,' but here the divine family of wind and rain has abandoned its own. Stagnation persists not from internal failure but from cosmic neglect — the rain simply falls elsewhere.
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