同人 → 益
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 42: Increase
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
府藏之富，王以賑貸；捕魚河海，苟罔多得，巨蛇大輶。戰於國郊，君遂走逃。
The treasury's riches; the king uses them for relief and loans. Catching fish in river and sea; wide nets bring great hauls, including giant serpents and large boats. Battle at the state's outskirts; the lord thereupon flees.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship in a verse of cascading reversals. The royal treasury brims with wealth, and the king distributes grain in relief; fishermen cast nets into rivers and seas, hauling in enormous catches — great serpents and giant turtles among them. Then the scene ruptures: battle erupts at the capital's outskirts, and the lord himself flees in defeat. Abundance turns to overreach, generosity to chaos, harvest to war. From Fellowship to Increase, the transformation underscores the irony. Wind and thunder in Increase, the noble man corrects faults when he sees goodness. The verse shows Increase's shadow: when resources flow without governance, bounty feeds the very forces that will destroy the state.
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