同人 → 巽
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 2
六二 同人于宗。吝。
Six in the second place means: Fellowship with men in the clan. Humiliation.
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
乘筏渡海，雖深不殆；曾孫皇祖，累累具在。
Riding a raft across the sea; though deep, there is no peril. From great-grandson to august ancestor; all generations abide in full.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship as a raft carries its passengers across the deep sea. Though the waters are fathomless, there is no peril — faith in the vessel holds. Then the verse turns to lineage: great-grandsons and august ancestors are all present in unbroken succession, generation upon generation accounted for. The raft is not merely a boat but a family line crossing the abyss of time. From Fellowship to the Gentle, the transformation sustains this passage. Doubled wind in the Gentle; the noble man reiterates his commands. Wind is persistent and penetrating — like ancestral memory carried forward. The raft endures because the wind that fills its sail is the accumulated breath of every generation.
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