同人 → 夬
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).
Line 2
六二 同人于宗。吝。
Six in the second place means: Fellowship with men in the clan. Humiliation.
Line 6
上九 同人于郊。无悔。
Nine at the top means: Fellowship with men in the meadow. No remorse.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
杜飛門啟，患憂大解；去老乘馬，不為身禍。
The gate of misfortune swings shut and opens; anxiety and trouble dissolve at once. Abandoning the old, riding on horseback; it does not become a bodily harm.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship, and the blocked door flies open. What was sealed is now unsealed; anxiety and sorrow dissolve at once. An aged figure mounts a horse and rides away — no longer imperiled, free from bodily harm. The verse reads like an escape narrative compressed to its essentials: confinement, release, departure. From Fellowship to Breakthrough, the transformation is the verse's own mechanism. The lake rises above heaven in Breakthrough as the noble man distributes blessings downward. The sealed door corresponds to accumulated tension; when it breaks, the relief cascades. The old man on horseback embodies the breakthrough's aftermath — not triumph but simple, grateful freedom.
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