同人 → 震
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).
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.
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
依叔墻隅，志下心勞；楚亭晨食，韓子低頭。
Leaning at the wall's corner; ambition low, heart weary. Eating a dawn meal at the inn of Chu; the nobleman of Han bows his head.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship, but the scene is one of humiliation and dependence. Leaning against a wall in a relative's courtyard, ambition crushed and heart exhausted. At a Chu roadside pavilion, taking a morning meal in haste; a man of Han lowers his head in submission. The verse evokes the indignity of a displaced person eating at another's table — pride sacrificed for survival. From Fellowship to the Arousing, the transformation injects sudden force into this posture of abasement. Doubled thunder shakes the world in the Arousing; the noble man examines himself in fear and trembling. The bowed head may be momentary — thunder has a way of straightening spines. What crouches in dependency gathers the shock that will propel it upright.
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