同人 → 賁
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
Line 4
九四 乘其墉。弗克攻。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: He climbs up on his wall; he cannot attack. Good fortune.
Line 5
九五 同人先號咷而後笑。大師克相遇。
Nine in the fifth place means: Men bound in fellowship first weep and lament, But afterward they laugh. After great struggles they succeed in meeting.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
車雖駕，兩紖絕；馬奔出，雙輪脫；行不至，道遇害。
The chariot is harnessed, yet both reins snap. The horses bolt; both wheels fly off. The journey does not arrive; the road meets with harm.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship, but the vehicle of progress disintegrates. The carriage is harnessed, yet both reins snap; the horse bolts and both wheels fly off. The traveler cannot reach the destination — disaster strikes on the road. Every component fails in sequence: control, propulsion, structure. From Fellowship to Grace, the transformation carries an unsettling irony. Mountain beneath the fire in Grace adorns the surface with beauty, yet here there is no surface left to adorn — the chariot has become wreckage. Grace warns that ornamentation cannot substitute for structural integrity. The fellowship that lacks a sound vehicle will never arrive, however beautiful the road.
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