同人 → 睽
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
Line 2
六二 同人于宗。吝。
Six in the second place means: Fellowship with men in the clan. Humiliation.
Line 3
九三 伏戎于莽。升其高陵。三歲不興。
Nine in the third place means: He hides weapons in the thicket; He climbs the high hill in front of it. For three years he does not rise up.
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
齊魯爭言，戰於龍門；搆怨結禍，三世不安。
Brothers divide the field, boundary stones deeply carved. A dog barks at the eastern fence; a rooster crows from the western house.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship, but this is a verse rewritten in modern style. The original reads: 'Qi and Lu dispute with words, battle at Dragon Gate; enmity breeds calamity through three generations, and peace never returns.' The states of Qi and Lu — neighbors bound by Zhou feudal ties — quarrel at the symbolic Dragon Gate, the gorge carved by Yu the Great. Their feud metastasizes across generations. From Fellowship to Opposition, the transformation is precise: fire above and lake below in Opposition pull apart what should cohere. The noble man seeks unity within difference, but Qi and Lu found only difference within what should have been unity. Three generations of grudges turn brotherhood into vendetta.
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