同人 → 漸
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 53: Development
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).
Line 1
初九 同人于門。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: Fellowship with men at the gate. No blame.
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
魁行搖尾，逐雲吹水；汙泥為陸，下田為稷。
The Great Bear walks and wags its tail, chasing clouds and stirring waters. Marshland becomes dry land; the low fields are planted with millet.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship as a great creature stirs the waters. A massive form lumbers forward, wagging its tail, chasing clouds and blowing across the water. Muddy marshland becomes dry ground; lowland paddies are planted with millet. The verse stages a primordial act of land reclamation — some immense force transforming wetland into arable field. From Fellowship to Development, the transformation mirrors this gradual conversion. Trees grow upon the mountain in Development; the noble man dwells in worthy virtue and improves customs. Development's patient, stage-by-stage progress matches the verse's agrarian metamorphosis: what begins as chaotic water eventually becomes ordered fields, one layer of sediment at a time.
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