同人 → 大畜
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
Line 2
六二 同人于宗。吝。
Six in the second place means: Fellowship with men in the clan. Humiliation.
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
陶朱白珪，善賈息資；三致千金，德施上人。
Tao Zhu and Bai Gui, shrewd merchants who multiplied their capital. Three times they amassed a thousand in gold; their virtue was bestowed upon the highest.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship as two legendary merchants demonstrate the art of wealth through wisdom. Tao Zhu Gong — Fan Li's merchant identity after retiring from statecraft — and Bai Gui of Luoyang, the 'ancestor of commerce,' both mastered the principle of buying what others discard and selling what others covet. Fan Li accumulated a thousand gold three times and three times gave it away, his virtue reaching those above him. From Fellowship to Great Taming, the transformation stores what fellowship has circulated. Heaven held within the mountain, Great Taming preserves the wisdom of past words and deeds. These merchants tame wealth itself, not hoarding but cycling it — and in cycling, accumulating something more durable than coin.
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