同人 → 乾
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 1: The Creative
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).
Line 2
六二 同人于宗。吝。
Six in the second place means: Fellowship with men in the clan. Humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
一臂六手，不便於口；莫肯與用，利棄我走。
One arm, six hands, yet none can reach the mouth. No one will lend their use; better to cast me aside and flee.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire rise together in Fellowship, yet here the collective fractures beyond repair. A creature with one arm and six hands cannot feed its own mouth — too many limbs, no coordination, each grasping finger working against the others. No one will cooperate; all abandon the enterprise and flee. The image captures a group so dysfunctional that its very structure defeats its purpose. From Fellowship to the Creative, the transformation is stark: what should become unified self-generating power instead scatters, because fellowship without shared purpose produces only grotesque multiplicity. The Creative's ceaseless strength demands singular will; a six-handed body pulling in every direction achieves nothing.
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